How to use RequireComponent with ParticleEmitters?

My C# script looks like this:

 using UnityEngine;
 using System.Collections;
 
 [RequireComponent(typeof (ParticleEmitter))]
 public class my_class : MonoBehaviour {
  // ...
 }

If I add the script it to a game object it creates an error telling me that Unity can not add a ParticleEmitter component, because there are only the derived MeshParticleEmitter or the EllipsoidParticleEmitter actually available as components. However, there are no MeshParticleEmitter or EllipsoidParticleEmitter classes that I could use in the RequireComponent command.

So how do you correctly require, lets say, an elliptical particle emitter component?

Thank you!