Name: "Candidatus Orientia chiloensis" Abarca et al. 2020

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: chi.lo.en’sis. N.L. fem. adj. chiloensis, after the Chiloé Archipelago (Los Lagos Region, Chile) where the pathogen was first identified

Gender: feminine

Type strain: MS2016-M

Original publication: Abarca K, Martinez-Valdebenito C, Angulo J, Jiang J, Farris CM, Richards AL, Acosta-Jamett G, Weitzel T. Molecular Description of a Novel Orientia Species Causing Scrub Typhus in Chile. Emerg Infect Dis 2020; 26:2148-2156.

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: inaccurate spelling

Taxonomic status: misspelling (and no standing)

Preferred name: "Candidatus Orientia chiloeensis" corrig. Abarca et al. 2020

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Orientia chiloeensis" corrig. Abarca et al. 2020	corrected spelling of name, not validly published

Parent taxon: Orientia Tamura et al. 1995

Assigned by: Abarca K, Martinez-Valdebenito C, Angulo J, Jiang J, Farris CM, Richards AL, Acosta-Jamett G, Weitzel T. Molecular Description of a Novel Orientia Species Causing Scrub Typhus in Chile. Emerg Infect Dis 2020; 26:2148-2156.

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Record number: 12788