Name: "Candidatus Protochlamydia amoebophila" Collingro et al. 2005

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: a.moe’bo.phi.la. Gr. masc. adj. prôtos, first, foremost; N.L. fem. n. Chlamydia, taxonomic name of a bacterial genus; N.L. fem. n. Protochlamydia, referring to the similarity of these bacteria to the chlamydial ancestor; N.L. fem. n. amoeba, an amoeba; Gr. masc. adj. philos, loving; N.L. fem. adj. amoebophila, loving amoebae, referring to the intracellular lifestyle within amoebae

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ATCC PRA-7; UWE25

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16S rRNA gene: JQ346728 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Collingro A, Toenshoff ER, Taylor MW, Fritsche TR, Wagner M, Horn M. 'Candidatus Protochlamydia amoebophila', an endosymbiont of Acanthamoeba spp. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1863-1866.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 55, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:7-9.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus "Candidatus Protochlamydia" Collingro et al. 2005. Publication: Collingro A, Toenshoff ER, Taylor MW, Fritsche TR, Wagner M, Horn M. 'Candidatus Protochlamydia amoebophila', an endosymbiont of Acanthamoeba spp. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1863-1866.
  • 🧍 Proposed as Candidatus name because growing co-culture with Acanthamoeba sp. 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 Protochlamydia" Collingro et al. 2005

Assigned by: Collingro A, Toenshoff ER, Taylor MW, Fritsche TR, Wagner M, Horn M. 'Candidatus Protochlamydia amoebophila', an endosymbiont of Acanthamoeba spp. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1863-1866.

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Record number: 800081