Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.32327

Name

Metachlamydia Corsaro et al. 2010

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Parachlamydiaceae Everett et al. 1999

Members

species	Metachlamydia lacustris Corsaro et al. 2010

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus 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 Metachlamydia Corsaro et al. 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 genus Metachlamydia Corsaro et al. 2010. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.32327.

Source File

10.1601/tx.32327.xml


This information was last reviewed on September 24, 2018.

References

Corsaro D, Michel R, Walochnik J, Müller K-D, Greub G. Saccamoeba lacustris, sp. nov. (Amoebozoa: Lobosea: Hartmannellidae), a new lobose amoeba, parasitized by the novel chlamydia 'Candidatus Metachlamydia lacustris' (Chlamydiae: Parachlamydiaceae). Eur J Protistol 2010; 46:86-95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejop.2009.11.002 [PubMed].