Name: "Candidatus Rhabdochlamydia porcellionis" Kostanjšek et al. 2004

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: por.cel.li.o’nis. Gr. fem. n. rhabdos, stick, rod; N.L. fem. n. Chlamydia, taxonomic name of a bacterial genus; N.L. fem. n. Rhabdochlamydia, rodshaped chlamydiae, referring to the rod-like shape of elementary bodies; N.L. gen. masc. n. porcellionis, of Porcellio, pertaining to the taxonomic genus name of the host organism (a terrestrial isopod)

Gender: feminine

Type strain: RKPsHep

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16S rRNA gene: AY223862 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Kostanjsek R, Strus J, Drobne D, Avgustin G. 'Candidatus Rhabdochlamydia porcellionis', an intracellular bacterium from the hepatopancreas of the terrestrial isopod Porcellio scaber (Crustacea: Isopoda). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:543-549.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 54, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1007-1009.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus "Candidatus Rhabdochlamydia" Kostanjšek et al. 2004. Publication: Kostanjsek R, Strus J, Drobne D, Avgustin G. 'Candidatus Rhabdochlamydia porcellionis', an intracellular bacterium from the hepatopancreas of the terrestrial isopod Porcellio scaber (Crustacea: Isopoda). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:543-549.
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • 🧍 Proposed as Candidatus name because growing in eukaryotic cell culture. Morphology of "Candidatus Rhabdochlamydia porcellionis" Kostanjsek et al. 2004 corresponds to the description of "Chlamydia isopodii" Shay et al. 1985. 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 Rhabdochlamydia" Kostanjšek et al. 2004

Assigned by: Kostanjsek R, Strus J, Drobne D, Avgustin G. 'Candidatus Rhabdochlamydia porcellionis', an intracellular bacterium from the hepatopancreas of the terrestrial isopod Porcellio scaber (Crustacea: Isopoda). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:543-549.

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Record number: 800069