Name: Rickettsia tamurae subsp. buchneri (Kurtti et al. 2015) Hördt et al. 2020

Category: Subspecies

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Rickettsia buchneri Kurtti et al. 2015

Etymology: buch’ner.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. buchneri, of Buchner, named in honor of Dr. Paul Buchner, a German biologist who made pioneering contributions to the identification of non-pathogenic tick endosymbionts that are transovarially transmitted

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ATCC VR-1814; DSM 29016; ISO-7

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: JFKF01000109 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 194. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4043-4049.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Rickettsia buchneri Kurtti et al. 2015	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, distinct rank

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.00885 (N = 1).

Parent taxon: Rickettsia tamurae Fournier et al. 2006

Assigned by: Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468.

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Record number: 11155