Name: "Candidatus Paracaedimonas acanthamoebae" Schrallhammer et al. 2018

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: a’canth.a.moe.bae. N.L. gen. fem. n. acanthamoebae, of the protist Acanthamoeba

Gender: feminine

Type strain: 30173; ATCC 30173; HN-3T

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: CP008936 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Schrallhammer M, Castelli M, Petroni G. Phylogenetic relationships among endosymbiotic R-body producer: Bacteria providing their host the killer trait. Syst Appl Microbiol 2018; 41:213-220.

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: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus "Candidatus Paracaedimonas" Schrallhammer et al. 2018. Publication: Schrallhammer M, Castelli M, Petroni G. Phylogenetic relationships among endosymbiotic R-body producer: Bacteria providing their host the killer trait. Syst Appl Microbiol 2018; 41:213-220.
  • 🧍 Proposed as Candidatus name because cultivated together with its host. Publication: Murray RG, Stackebrandt E. Taxonomic note: implementation of the provisional status Candidatus for incompletely described procaryotes. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1995; 45:186-187.

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Paracaedimonas" Schrallhammer et al. 2018

Assigned by: Schrallhammer M, Castelli M, Petroni G. Phylogenetic relationships among endosymbiotic R-body producer: Bacteria providing their host the killer trait. Syst Appl Microbiol 2018; 41:213-220.

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Record number: 1048