Name: "Candidatus Wolbachia brugii" Ramírez-Puebla et al. 2015

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: bru’gi.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. brugii, of Brug, named after S. L. Brug, a Dutch parasitologist who first described the filarial nematode Brugia malayi, a model for the study of Wolbachia-nematode relationships

Gender: feminine

Type strain: wBm strain TRS

Original publication: Ramirez-Puebla ST, Servin-Garciduenas LE, Ormeno-Orrillo E, Vera-Ponce de Leon A, Rosenblueth M, Delaye L, Martinez J, Martinez-Romero E. Species in Wolbachia? Proposal for the designation of 'Candidatus Wolbachia bourtzisii', 'Candidatus Wolbachia onchocercicola', 'Candidatus Wolbachia blaxteri', 'Candidatus Wolbachia brugii', 'Candidatus Wolbachia taylori', 'Candidatus Wolbachia collembolicola' and 'Candidatus Wolbachia multihospitum' for the different species within Wolbachia supergroups. Syst Appl Microbiol 2015; 38:390-399.

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)

Parent taxon: Wolbachia Hertig 1936 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Ramirez-Puebla ST, Servin-Garciduenas LE, Ormeno-Orrillo E, Vera-Ponce de Leon A, Rosenblueth M, Delaye L, Martinez J, Martinez-Romero E. Species in Wolbachia? Proposal for the designation of 'Candidatus Wolbachia bourtzisii', 'Candidatus Wolbachia onchocercicola', 'Candidatus Wolbachia blaxteri', 'Candidatus Wolbachia brugii', 'Candidatus Wolbachia taylori', 'Candidatus Wolbachia collembolicola' and 'Candidatus Wolbachia multihospitum' for the different species within Wolbachia supergroups. Syst Appl Microbiol 2015; 38:390-399.

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Record number: 2864