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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species "Candidatus Rickettsia wissemanii"

Name: "Candidatus Rickettsia wissemanii" Tahir et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: wis.se.ma’ni.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. wissemanii, named after Charles Wisseman of the University of Maryland, who worked in the field of rickettsial diseases

Pronunciation, gender: wis-se-MA-ni-i, feminine

Nomenclatural type: G1329

16S rRNA gene: LT558851 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Tahir D, Socolovschi C, Marie JL, Ganay G, Berenger JM, Bompar JM, Blanchet D, Cheuret M, Mediannikov O, Raoult D, et al. New Rickettsia species in soft ticks Ornithodoros hasei collected from bats in French Guiana. Ticks Tick Borne Dis 2016; 7:1089-1096. 🇫🇷

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: Tahir D, Socolovschi C, Marie JL, Ganay G, Berenger JM, Bompar JM, Blanchet D, Cheuret M, Mediannikov O, Raoult D, et al. New Rickettsia species in soft ticks Ornithodoros hasei collected from bats in French Guiana. Ticks Tick Borne Dis 2016; 7:1089-1096. 🇫🇷

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Record number: 2826
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