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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species "Candidatus Rickettsia principis"

Name: "Candidatus Rickettsia principis" Mediannikov et al. 2006

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: prin’ci.pis. L. gen. masc. n. principis, of the prince, collected close to Prince Volkonsky Village, Russia

Gender: feminine

Nomenclatural type: Hjd54

Effective publication: Mediannikov O, Sidelnikov Y, Ivanov L, Fournier PE, Tarasevich I, Raoult D. Far eastern tick-borne rickettsiosis: identification of two new cases and tick vector. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2006; 1078:80-88. 🇷🇺

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: Mediannikov O, Sidelnikov Y, Ivanov L, Fournier PE, Tarasevich I, Raoult D. Far eastern tick-borne rickettsiosis: identification of two new cases and tick vector. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2006; 1078:80-88. 🇷🇺

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Record number: 800258
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