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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species "Candidatus Ehrlichia ornithorhynchi"

Name: "Candidatus Ehrlichia ornithorhynchi" Gofton et al. 2018

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: or.ni.tho.rhyn’chi. N.L. gen. masc. n. ornithorhynchi, of the platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: ehr-LI-khi-a or-ni-tho-RHYN-khi, feminine

Nomenclatural type: PT50

Effective publication: Gofton AW, Loh SM, Barbosa AD, Paparini A, Gillett A, Macgregor J, Oskam CL, Ryan UM, Irwin PJ. A novel Ehrlichia species in blood and Ixodes ornithorhynchi ticks from platypuses (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) in Queensland and Tasmania, Australia. Ticks Tick Borne Dis 2018; 9:435-442. 🇦🇺

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Candidatus list no. 2. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4671.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

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

Taxonomic status: pro-correct name

Parent taxon: Ehrlichia Moshkovski 1945 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Gofton AW, Loh SM, Barbosa AD, Paparini A, Gillett A, Macgregor J, Oskam CL, Ryan UM, Irwin PJ. A novel Ehrlichia species in blood and Ixodes ornithorhynchi ticks from platypuses (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) in Queensland and Tasmania, Australia. Ticks Tick Borne Dis 2018; 9:435-442. 🇦🇺

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Record number: 2717

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