Name: "Candidatus Protochlamydia massiliensis" Benamar et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: mas.si.li.en’sis. L. masc./fem. adj. massiliensis, referring to Massilia, the Latin name for Marseille, where the strain was characterized

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CSUR P2508

Original publication: Benamar S, Bou Khalil JY, Blanc-Tailleur C, Bilen M, Barrassi L, La Scola B. Developmental Cycle and Genome Analysis of Protochlamydia massiliensis sp. nov. a New Species in the Parachlamydiacae Family. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2017; 7:385.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧍 Proposed as Candidatus name because cultivated together with amoebal hosts. 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: Benamar S, Bou Khalil JY, Blanc-Tailleur C, Bilen M, Barrassi L, La Scola B. Developmental Cycle and Genome Analysis of Protochlamydia massiliensis sp. nov. a New Species in the Parachlamydiacae Family. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2017; 7:385.

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Record number: 1056