Name: "Candidatus Westeberhardia cardiocondylae" Klein et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: N.L. gen. fem. n. cardiocondylae, indicates that it is an endosymbiont of Cardiocondyla ants

Gender: feminine

Type strain: obscurior is a symbiont of Cardiocondyla obscurior

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Original publication: Klein A, Schrader L, Gil R, Manzano-Marin A, Florez L, Wheeler D, Werren JH, Latorre A, Heinze J, Kaltenpoth M, et al. A novel intracellular mutualistic bacterium in the invasive ant Cardiocondyla obscurior. ISME J 2016; 10:376-388.

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: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus "Candidatus Westeberhardia" Klein et al. 2016. Publication: Klein A, Schrader L, Gil R, Manzano-Marin A, Florez L, Wheeler D, Werren JH, Latorre A, Heinze J, Kaltenpoth M, et al. A novel intracellular mutualistic bacterium in the invasive ant Cardiocondyla obscurior. ISME J 2016; 10:376-388.

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Westeberhardia" Klein et al. 2016

Assigned by: Klein A, Schrader L, Gil R, Manzano-Marin A, Florez L, Wheeler D, Werren JH, Latorre A, Heinze J, Kaltenpoth M, et al. A novel intracellular mutualistic bacterium in the invasive ant Cardiocondyla obscurior. ISME J 2016; 10:376-388.

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Record number: 2860