Name: "Candidatus Cuticulibacterium kirbyi" corrig. Wier et al. 2004

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: kir’by.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. kirbyi, named for Harold Kirby, Jr. (1900–1952), Professor of Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, who described the major features of these organisms and their associations as intrinsic to the host

Gender: neuter

Type strain: SA17

16S rRNA gene: AY567708 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Wier AM, Dolan MF, Margulis L. Cortical symbionts and hydrogenosomes of the amitochondriate protist Staurojoenina assimilis. Symbiosis 2004; 36:153-168.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Candidatus list no. 3. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5186.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Cuticobacterium kirbyi" Wier et al. 2004	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus "Candidatus Cuticulibacterium" corrig. Wier et al. 2004. Publication: Wier AM, Dolan MF, Margulis L. Cortical symbionts and hydrogenosomes of the amitochondriate protist Staurojoenina assimilis. Symbiosis 2004; 36:153-168.

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Cuticulibacterium" corrig. Wier et al. 2004

Assigned by: Wier AM, Dolan MF, Margulis L. Cortical symbionts and hydrogenosomes of the amitochondriate protist Staurojoenina assimilis. Symbiosis 2004; 36:153-168.

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Record number: 28604