Genus Sarcobium

Name: Sarcobium Drozanski 1991

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Sar.co.bi.um. Gr. fem. n. sarx (gen. sarkos), flesh; Gr. masc. n. bios, life; N.L. neut. n. Sarcobium, that which lives in the sarcode or flesh [cytoplasm]

Gender: neuter (stem: Sarcobi-)

Type species: Sarcobium lyticum Drozanski 1991

Valid publication: Drozanski WJ. Sarcobium lyticum gen. nov., sp. nov., an obligate intracellular bacterial parasite of small free-living amoebae. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1991; 41:82-87.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 41, part 1 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:457-458.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Legionella Brenner et al. 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

Parent taxon: Legionellaceae Brenner et al. 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Saini N, Gupta RS. A robust phylogenetic framework for members of the order Legionellales and its main genera (Legionella, Aquicella, Coxiella and Rickettsiella) based on phylogenomic analyses and identification of molecular markers demarcating different clades. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2021; 114:957-982.

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