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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species "Candidatus Burkholderia spithamea"

Name: "Candidatus Burkholderia spithamea" Lemaire et al. 2011

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: spit.ha’me.a. N.L. fem. adj. spithamea, name based on the specific epithet of the host plant Psychotria spithamea

Gender: feminine

Nomenclatural type: BR 2000194762

16S rRNA gene: JN053620 Analysetree FASTA download

Effective publication: Lemaire B, Vandamme P, Merckx V, Smets E, Dessein S. Bacterial leaf symbiosis in angiosperms: host specificity without co-speciation. PLoS One 2011; 6:e24430. 🇧🇪

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

Nomenclatural pro-status: pro-validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: pro-correct name

Parent taxon: Burkholderia Yabuuchi et al. 1993

Assigned by: Lemaire B, Vandamme P, Merckx V, Smets E, Dessein S. Bacterial leaf symbiosis in angiosperms: host specificity without co-speciation. PLoS One 2011; 6:e24430. 🇧🇪

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Record number: 22371

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