Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.26775

Name

Similichlamydia Stride et al. 2013

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	Parilichlamydiaceae Stride et al. 2013

Members

species	Similichlamydia latridicola Stride et al. 2013
species	Similichlamydia epinepheli corrig. Taylor-Brown et al. 2017
species	Similichlamydia labri Steigen et al. 2015
species	Similichlamydia laticola Stride et al. 2013

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 Parilichlamydiaceae Stride et al. 2013
genus Similichlamydia Stride et al. 2013

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 Similichlamydia Stride et al. 2013. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.26775.

Source File

10.1601/tx.26775.xml


This information was last reviewed on August 9, 2019.

References

Stride MC, Polkinghorne A, Powell MD, Nowak BF. "Candidatus Similichlamydia laticola", a novel Chlamydia-like agent of epitheliocystis in seven consecutive cohorts of farmed Australian Barramundi, Lates calcarifer (Bloch). PLoS One 2013; 8:e82889. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0082889 [PubMed].
Steigen A, Karlsbakk E, Plarre H, Watanabe K, Øvergård A-C, Brevik Ø, Nylund A. A new intracellular bacterium, Candidatus Similichlamydia labri sp. nov. (Chlamydiaceae) producing epitheliocysts in ballan wrasse, Labrus bergylta (Pisces, Labridae). Arch Microbiol 2015; 197:311-318. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00203-014-1061-4 [PubMed].
Stride MC, Polkinghorne A, Miller TL, Nowak BF. Molecular characterization of "Candidatus Similichlamydia latridicola" gen. nov., sp. nov. (Chlamydiales: "Candidatus Parilichlamydiaceae"), a novel Chlamydia-Like Epitheliocystis agent in the Striped Trumpeter, Latris lineata (Forster). Appl Environ Microbiol 2013; 79:4914-4920. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00746-13 [PubMed].
Taylor-Brown A, Pillonel T, Bridle A, Qi W, Bachmann NL, Miller TL, Greub G, Nowak B, Seth-Smith HMB, Vaughan L, Polkinghorne A. Culture-independent genomics of a novel chlamydial pathogen of fish provides new insight into host-specific adaptations utilized by these intracellular bacteria. Environ Microbiol 2017; 19:1899-1913. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.13694 [PubMed].