Name: "Candidatus Nucleicultrix amoebiphila" Schulz et al. 2014

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: a.mo.e.bi’phi.la. N.L. fem. n. amoeba, an amoeba; N.L. fem. adj. suff. -phila, friend, loving; N.L. fem. adj. amoebiphila, amoeba-loving

Gender: feminine

Type strain: FS5

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KF697195 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Schulz F, Lagkouvardos I, Wascher F, Aistleitner K, Kostanjsek R, Horn M. Life in an unusual intracellular niche: a bacterial symbiont infecting the nucleus of amoebae. ISME J 2014; 8:1634-1644.

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

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Nucleicultrix amoebiphila" Chuvochina et al. 2023	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus "Candidatus Nucleicultrix" Schulz et al. 2014. Publication: Schulz F, Lagkouvardos I, Wascher F, Aistleitner K, Kostanjsek R, Horn M. Life in an unusual intracellular niche: a bacterial symbiont infecting the nucleus of amoebae. ISME J 2014; 8:1634-1644.

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Nucleicultrix" Schulz et al. 2014

Assigned by: Schulz F, Lagkouvardos I, Wascher F, Aistleitner K, Kostanjsek R, Horn M. Life in an unusual intracellular niche: a bacterial symbiont infecting the nucleus of amoebae. ISME J 2014; 8:1634-1644.

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Record number: 2778