Name: Chitinimonadaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Chi.ti.ni.mo.na.da.ce’ae. N.L. fem. n. Chitinimonas, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Chitinimonadaceae, family of the genus Chitinimonas

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Chitinimonas Chang et al. 2004

Effective publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 215. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6173.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Burkholderiaceae Garrity et al. 2006

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Burkholderiaceae Garrity et al. 2006	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧒 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned the genus Chitinimonas Chang et al. 2004 to this family. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Burkholderiaceae Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Li Y, Zhu H, Lai Q, Lei X, Chen Z, Zhang H, Tian Y, Zheng W, Zheng T. Chitinimonas prasina sp. nov., isolated from lake water. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3005-3009.
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Chitinibacteraceae Chen et al. 2022. Publication: Chen S, Rudra B, Gupta RS. Phylogenomics and molecular signatures support division of the order Neisseriales into emended families Neisseriaceae and Chromobacteriaceae and three new families Aquaspirillaceae fam. nov., Chitinibacteraceae fam. nov., and Leeiaceae fam. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2021; 44:126251.
  • ❗ Chitinimonadaceae is the correct name instead if this family is regarded as a separate family (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another family whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority).

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