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

Gender: feminine

Original 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

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not 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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