Name: "Candidatus Rickettsia gravesii" Owen et al. 2006
Etymology: gra.ves’i.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. gravesii, after Stephen Graves, an Australian physician and microbiologist who is the founder and director of The Australian Rickettsial Reference Laboratory and has a long history of promoting and contributing to Australian rickettsial research
Type strain: ARRL RGBWI-1; ATCC VR-1664; BWI; BWI-1; CSUR R172
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16S rRNA gene: DQ269434 Analyse FASTA
Original publication: Owen H, Unsworth N, Stenos J, Robertson I, Clark P, Fenwick S. Detection and identification of a novel spotted fever group rickettsia in Western Australia. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2006; 1078:197-199.
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
Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)
Correct name: Rickettsia gravesii Abdad et al. 2017
Name | Kind |
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"Rickettsia conorii subsp. gravesii" (Abdad et al. 2017) Hoerdt et al. 2020 | homotypic synonym, not validly published, distinct rank |
Rickettsia gravesii Abdad et al. 2017 | homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP |
Parent taxon: Rickettsia da Rocha-Lima 1916 (Approved Lists 1980)
Assigned by: Owen H, Unsworth N, Stenos J, Robertson I, Clark P, Fenwick S. Detection and identification of a novel spotted fever group rickettsia in Western Australia. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2006; 1078:197-199.
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Record number: 36356