Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.14684

Name

Protochlamydia amoebophila Horn 2010

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Protochlamydia Horn 2010

Type Strain

representative organism

UWE25^T (=UWC1E25 =ATCC PRA-7)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Chlamydiota corrig. Garrity and Holt 2021
class Chlamydiia (Cavalier-Smith 2002) Horn 2016 emend. Gupta et al. 2015
order Parachlamydiales Gupta et al. 2016
family Parachlamydiaceae Everett et al. 1999
genus Protochlamydia Horn 2010
species Protochlamydia amoebophila Horn 2010

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the species Protochlamydia amoebophila Horn 2010. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.14684.

Source File

10.1601/tx.14684.xml


This information was last reviewed on September 6, 2019.

References

Collingro A, Toenshoff ER, Taylor MW, Fritsche TR, Wagner M, Horn M. ‘Candidatus Protochlamydia amoebophila’, an endosymbiont of Acanthamoeba spp. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1863-1866. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63572-0 [PubMed].