Name: "Candidatus Profftella armatura" Nakabachi et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: ar.ma.tu’ra. L. fem. n. armatura, is armament, the feminine form

Pronunciation, gender: ar-ma-TU-ra, feminine

Nomenclatural type: DC

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: CP003468 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Nakabachi A, Ueoka R, Oshima K, Teta R, Mangoni A, Gurgui M, Oldham NJ, van Echten-Deckert G, Okamura K, Yamamoto K, et al. Defensive bacteriome symbiont with a drastically reduced genome. Curr Biol 2013; 23:1478-1484.

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

Nomenclatural pro-status: pro-validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: pro-correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus "Candidatus Profftella" Nakabachi et al. 2013. Publication: Nakabachi A, Ueoka R, Oshima K, Teta R, Mangoni A, Gurgui M, Oldham NJ, van Echten-Deckert G, Okamura K, Yamamoto K, et al. Defensive bacteriome symbiont with a drastically reduced genome. Curr Biol 2013; 23:1478-1484.
  • 🧍 This species was confirmed as the type species of its monotypic genus in Appendix 1 of Candidatus List No. 6.

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Profftella" Nakabachi et al. 2013

Assigned by: Nakabachi A, Ueoka R, Oshima K, Teta R, Mangoni A, Gurgui M, Oldham NJ, van Echten-Deckert G, Okamura K, Yamamoto K, et al. Defensive bacteriome symbiont with a drastically reduced genome. Curr Biol 2013; 23:1478-1484.

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Record number: 1054