Name: Blattabacterium Hollande and Favre 1931 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Blat.ta.bac.te.ri.um. L. fem. n. blatta, an insect that shuns the light, the cockroach, chafer, moth, etc; N.L. neut. n. bacterium, rod; N.L. neut. n. Blattabacterium, an endosymbiotic bacterium harbored by cockroaches and one termite species [probably better: Blattibacterium]

Gender: neuter (stem: Blattabacteri-)

Type species: Blattabacterium cuenoti (Mercier 1906) Hollande and Favre 1931 (Approved Lists 1980)

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Hollande AC, Favre R. La structure cytologique de Blattabacterium cuenoti (Mercier) N.G., symbiote du tissu adipeux des Blattides. Comptes Rendus des Séances de la Société de Biologie (Paris) 1931; 107:752-754.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 4

Parent taxon: Blattabacteriaceae Kambhampati 2012

Assigned by: Kambhampati S. Family II. Blattabacteriaceae fam. nov. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 4, Springer, New York, 2010, p. 315.

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Record number: 517187
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