Species "Candidatus Rickettsia ixodis"

Name: "Candidatus Rickettsia ixodis" corrig. Anstead and Chilton 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: i.xo’dis. N.L. gen. masc. n. ixodis, of the tick Ixodes kingi

Gender: feminine

Nomenclatural type: CA10; no culture isolated

16S rRNA gene: HF935068 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Anstead CA, Chilton NB. Detection of a novel Rickettsia (Alphaproteobacteria: Rickettsiales) in rotund ticks (Ixodes kingi) from Saskatchewan, Canada. Ticks Tick Borne Dis 2013; 4:202-206. 🇨🇦

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: Anstead CA, Chilton NB. Detection of a novel Rickettsia (Alphaproteobacteria: Rickettsiales) in rotund ticks (Ixodes kingi) from Saskatchewan, Canada. Ticks Tick Borne Dis 2013; 4:202-206. 🇨🇦

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Record number: 800609
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