Name: "Candidatus Schmidhempelia bombi" Martinson et al. 2014

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: bom’bi. L. masc. n. bombus, a boom, a deep hollow noise, buzzing, also the zoological genus name of the bumble bee; L. gen. masc. n. bombi, of Bombus, of a bumble bee

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … BOM-bi, feminine

Nomenclatural type: Bimp

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AWGA01000005 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Martinson VG, Magoc T, Koch H, Salzberg SL, Moran NA. Genomic features of a bumble bee symbiont reflect its host environment. Appl Environ Microbiol 2014; 80:3793-3803. 🇺🇸

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

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus "Candidatus Schmidhempelia" Martinson et al. 2014. Publication: Martinson VG, Magoc T, Koch H, Salzberg SL, Moran NA. Genomic features of a bumble bee symbiont reflect its host environment. Appl Environ Microbiol 2014; 80:3793-3803. 🇺🇸
  • 🧍 This species was confirmed as the type species of its monotypic genus in Appendix 1 of Candidatus List No. 6.

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Schmidhempelia" Martinson et al. 2014

Assigned by: Martinson VG, Magoc T, Koch H, Salzberg SL, Moran NA. Genomic features of a bumble bee symbiont reflect its host environment. Appl Environ Microbiol 2014; 80:3793-3803. 🇺🇸

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