Name: Balneolaceae Xia et al. 2016

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Bal.ne.o.la’ce.ae. N.L. fem. n. Balneola, type genus of the family [probably better: Balneolea]; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Balneolaceae, the family of the genus Balneola

Pronunciation, gender: bal-ne-o-LA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Balneola Urios et al. 2006

Valid publication: Xia J, Ling SK, Wang XQ, Chen GJ, Du ZJ. Aliifodinibius halophilus sp. nov., a moderately halophilic member of the genus Aliifodinibius, and proposal of Balneolaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2225-2233. 🇨🇳

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3765-3767.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Balneolaceae" Munoz et al. 2016	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Emendations:
  • Hahnke et al. 2016 Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:2003. 🇩🇪 Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 26. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2081-2086.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 3 genera in the family.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Hahnke et al. (2016) assigned this family to the class Balneolia Munoz et al. 2017. Publication: Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:2003. 🇩🇪
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Chitinophagaceae Kämpfer et al. 2011. Publication: Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO. The SILVA and “all-species living tree project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; 42(D1):D643-D648. 🇩🇪
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Bowman JP, Bernardet JF, Frandsen Lau E. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes: Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Aerobic Bacteroidetes (formerly Flavobacterium and Cytophaga-like bacteria). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:6017-6020. 🇦🇺
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Cho et al. (2013), Xia et al. (2017). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: KCTC: 18; DSM: 9; MCCC: 8; ACCC: 8; NBRC: 4; KACC: 4; JCM: 3; CECT: 3; CGMCC: 3; CIP: 2.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 5
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 7
Total number of child taxa: 7

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Aliifodinibius Wang et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Balneola Urios et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Fodinibius Wang et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Gracilimonas Choi et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Halalkalibacterium Wu et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name, later homonym	synonym
    Halalkalibaculum Wu et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Rhodohalobacter Xia et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Balneolales Munoz et al. 2017

Assigned by: Munoz R, Rossello-Mora R, Amann R. Revised phylogeny of Bacteroidetes and proposal of sixteen new taxa and two new combinations including Rhodothermaeota phyl. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2016; 39:281-296. 🇪🇸

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