Name: "Candidatus Hafkinia simulans" Fokin et al. 2019

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: si.mu.lans. L. part. adj. simulans, imitating, because the infectious form of this endosymbiont resembles the diatoms eaten by its host ciliate

Gender: feminine

Type strain: symbiont of Frontonia salmastra

Original publication: Fokin SI, Serra V, Ferrantini F, Modeo L, Petroni G. "Candidatus Hafkinia simulans" gen. nov., sp. nov., a Novel Holospora-Like Bacterium from the Macronucleus of the Rare Brackish Water Ciliate Frontonia salmastra (Oligohymenophorea, Ciliophora): Multidisciplinary Characterization of the New Endosymbiont and Its Host. Microb Ecol 2019; 77:1092-1106.

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)

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus "Candidatus Hafkinia" Fokin et al. 2019. Publication: Fokin SI, Serra V, Ferrantini F, Modeo L, Petroni G. "Candidatus Hafkinia simulans" gen. nov., sp. nov., a Novel Holospora-Like Bacterium from the Macronucleus of the Rare Brackish Water Ciliate Frontonia salmastra (Oligohymenophorea, Ciliophora): Multidisciplinary Characterization of the New Endosymbiont and Its Host. Microb Ecol 2019; 77:1092-1106.

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Hafkinia" Fokin et al. 2019

Assigned by: Fokin SI, Serra V, Ferrantini F, Modeo L, Petroni G. "Candidatus Hafkinia simulans" gen. nov., sp. nov., a Novel Holospora-Like Bacterium from the Macronucleus of the Rare Brackish Water Ciliate Frontonia salmastra (Oligohymenophorea, Ciliophora): Multidisciplinary Characterization of the New Endosymbiont and Its Host. Microb Ecol 2019; 77:1092-1106.

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Record number: 2430