Blattabacterium

J.P. Euzéby: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature - Genus Blattabacterium

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Number of species cited in this file: 1
Number of subspecies cited in this file: 0

Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").

Blattabacterium Hollande and Favre 1931, genus. (Type genus of the family ¤ Blattabacteriaceae Kambhampati 2012).
Type species: ¤ Blattabacterium cuenoti (Mercier 1906) Hollande and Favre 1931 (Approved Lists 1980).
Etymology: L. fem. n. blatta, an insect that shuns the light, the cockroach, chafer, moth, etc.; L. neut. n. bacterium, rod; N.L. neut. n. Blattabacterium, an endosymbiotic bacterium harbored by cockroaches and one termite species.
References: SKERMAN (V.B.D.), McGOWAN (V.) and SNEATH (P.H.A.) (editors): Approved Lists of Bacterial Names. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1980, 30, 225-420 (Approved Lists of Bacterial Names in IJSEM Online - Approved Lists of Bacterial Names Amended edition). [HOLLANDE (A.C.) and 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.]

Blattabacterium cuenoti (Mercier 1906) Hollande and Favre 1931, species. (Type species of the genus).
Type strain (see also StrainInfo.net): no culture isolated.
GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain: not available.
Synonym: "Bacillus cuenoti" Mercier 1906.
Etymology: N.L. gen. masc. n. cuenoti, of Cuenot, named after L. Cuenot, who studied intracellular inclusions in orthopteran insects.
References: SKERMAN (V.B.D.), McGOWAN (V.) and SNEATH (P.H.A.) (editors): Approved Lists of Bacterial Names. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1980, 30, 225-420 (Approved Lists of Bacterial Names in IJSEM Online - Approved Lists of Bacterial Names Amended edition). [1 MERCIER (L.): Les corps bacteroides de la blatte (Periplanata orientalis: Bacillus cuenoti (n. sp. L. Mercier). Comptes Rendus des Séances de la Société de Biologie (Paris), 1906, 61, 682-684. 2 HOLLANDE (A.C.) and 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.]