Name: "Candidatus Protochlamydia phocaeensis" Bou Khalil et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: pho.cae.en’sis. L. masc./fem. adj. phocaeensis, from phocaeensis referring to Phocea, the latin name of the city which founded Marseille, where the bacterium was isolated

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CSUR P2506

Original publication: Bou Khalil JY, Benamar S, Di Pinto F, Blanc-Tailleur C, Raoult D, La Scola B. Protochlamydia phocaeensis sp. nov., a new Chlamydiales species with host dependent replication cycle. Microbes Infect 2017; 19:343-350.

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: Bou Khalil JY, Benamar S, Di Pinto F, Blanc-Tailleur C, Raoult D, La Scola B. Protochlamydia phocaeensis sp. nov., a new Chlamydiales species with host dependent replication cycle. Microbes Infect 2017; 19:343-350.

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Record number: 7666