Name: "Candidatus Berkiella cookevillensis" Mehari et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: cooke’vill.ensis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. cookevillensis, referring to Cookeville, TN, USA, where the first strain was isolated

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CC 99

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EF492067 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Mehari YT, Jason Hayes B, Redding KS, Mariappan PVG, Gunderson JH, Farone AL, Farone MB. Description of 'Candidatus Berkiella aquae' and 'Candidatus Berkiella cookevillensis', two intranuclear bacteria of freshwater amoebae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:536-541.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM, Parker CT, Chuvochina M, Trujillo ME. Candidatus list no. 1. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3956-4042.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Berkiella" Mehari et al. 2016

Assigned by: Mehari YT, Jason Hayes B, Redding KS, Mariappan PVG, Gunderson JH, Farone AL, Farone MB. Description of 'Candidatus Berkiella aquae' and 'Candidatus Berkiella cookevillensis', two intranuclear bacteria of freshwater amoebae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:536-541.

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Record number: 800443