Candidatus Clavichlamydia

Citation

Formal styling

“Candidatus Clavichlamydia” corrig. Karlsen et al., 2007 emend. Horn, 2015

Effective publication

Karlsen et al., 2007

Corrigendum

Horn, 2015 from “Candidatus Clavochlamydia” (sic)

Emended in

Horn, 2015

SeqCode status

Automated discovery

Cannonical URL

https://seqco.de/i:446

Nomenclature

Rank

Genus

Inferred stem

Clavichlamydi-

Syllabication

Cla.vi.chla.my'di.a

Etymology

L. n. clava, a knotty branch, rough stick, cudgel, club; N.L. fem. n. Chlamydia, taxonomic name of a bacterial genus; N.L. fem. n. Clavichlamydia, a club Chlamydia (the morphology of the bacteria includes the characteristic head-and-tail cells that have been described earlier from salmonid fish suffering from epitheliocystis)

Taxonomy

Description

Horn (2015): Pleomorphic or elongated, nonmotile, obligate intracellular bacteria, up to 2 μm in length. Cells show a developmental cycle with morphologically distinct stages and thrive inside a host vacuole. Organisms were found within gill lesions of fish and are differentiated from all other chlamydiae by the morphology of the proposed elementary bodies, which show a characteristic head-and-tail form. Members have not yet been obtained in cell culture.
Type species: “Candidatus Clavichlamydia salmonicola” corrig. Karlsen, Nylund, Watanabe, Helvik, Nylund and Plarre 2008.

Classification

Bacteria » Chlamydiota » Chlamydiia » Chlamydiales » Candidatus Clavichlamydiaceae » Candidatus Clavichlamydia

Parent

Candidatus Clavichlamydiaceae

Alternatively placed children (1)

• “Clavichlamydia salmonicola” (preferred placement in “Clavichlamydia”)

Metadata

Outside links and data sources

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Search sequences

• NCBI Nucleotide

Local history

• This name was last modified over 1 year ago
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