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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species "Candidatus Rickettsia gannanensis"

Name: "Candidatus Rickettsia gannanensis" corrig. Yang et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: gan.na.nen’sis. N.L. fem. adj. gannanensis, pertaining to the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture on the northeast edge of the Qing-Tibetan Plateau, where the organism was isolated

Pronunciation, gender: gan-na-NEN-sis, feminine

Nomenclatural type: R16-1

Effective publication: Yang J, Tian Z, Liu Z, Niu Q, Han R, Li Y, Guan G, Liu J, Liu G, Luo J, et al. Novel spotted fever group rickettsiae in Haemaphysalis qinghaiensis ticks from Gansu, Northwest China. Parasit Vectors 2016; 9:146.

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

Parent taxon: Rickettsia da Rocha-Lima 1916 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Yang J, Tian Z, Liu Z, Niu Q, Han R, Li Y, Guan G, Liu J, Liu G, Luo J, et al. Novel spotted fever group rickettsiae in Haemaphysalis qinghaiensis ticks from Gansu, Northwest China. Parasit Vectors 2016; 9:146.

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Record number: 22090
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