Family Chitinophagaceae

Name: Chitinophagaceae Kämpfer et al. 2011

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Chi.ti.no.pha.ga.ce’a.e. N.L. fem. n. Chitinophaga, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Chitinophagaceae, the Chitinophaga family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Chitinophaga Sangkhobol and Skerman 1981

Valid publication: Kampfer P, Lodders N, Falsen E. Hydrotalea flava gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the phylum Bacteroidetes and allocation of the genera Chitinophaga, Sediminibacterium, Lacibacter, Flavihumibacter, Flavisolibacter, Niabella, Niastella, Segetibacter, Parasegetibacter, Terrimonas, Ferruginibacter, Filimonas and Hydrotalea to the family Chitinophagaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:518-523.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 61, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:1237-1238.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Notes:
- Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned the genus Balneola Urios et al. 2006 to this family. 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.
- Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned the genus Gracilimonas Choi et al. 2009 to this family. 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.
- The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Crenotrichaceae Hansgirg 1888 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166.
- This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Bernardet JF, Bowman JP. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Flavobacterium and Cytophaga-like bacteria: Minutes of the meetings, 7 September 2011, Sapporo, Japan. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2752-2754.
- 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 Siddiqi et al. (2016), Zhang et al. (2010), Dai et al. (2011), Lv et al. (2017), Siddiqi et al. (2021). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 45
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 49
Total number of child taxa: 55

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Agriterribacter Lee and Whang 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Arachidicoccus Madhaiyan et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Arvibacter Chaudhary and Kim 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Asinibacterium Lee et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
Aurantisolimonas Liu et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Chitinophaga Sangkhobol and Skerman 1981	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Cnuella Zhao et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Compostibacter Siddiqi et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Crenotalea Hanada et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
Deminuibacter Wang et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Dinghuibacter Lv et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Edaphobaculum Cao et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Edaphocola" Choi et al. 2019	not validly published
Ferruginibacter Lim et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Filimonas Shiratori et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flaviaesturariibacter Kang et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flavihumibacter Zhang et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flavipsychrobacter Liu et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flavisolibacter Yoon and Im 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flavitalea Wang et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Foetidibacter" Pu et al. 2021	not validly published
"Ginsengibacter" Siddiqi et al. 2021	not validly published
Gynurincola Zhang et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Haoranjiania Zhang et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Heliimonas Leandro et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Hydrobacter Eder et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Hydrotalea Kämpfer et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Ilyomonas" Chhetri et al. 2019	not validly published
Lacibacter Qu et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Mucibacter Kim et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Nemorella Chaudhary et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name	synonym
Nemorincola Chaudhary et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Niabella Kim et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Niastella Weon et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Niveitalea Hyeon et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Panacibacter Siddiqi et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Paracnuella Wang et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Parafilimonas Kim et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Paraflavitalea Heo et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Parapseudoflavitalea Lawson et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Parasediminibacterium Kang et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Parasegetibacter Zhang et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Phnomibacter Siddiqi et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Pseudobacter Siddiqi and Im 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Pseudocnuella" Maeng et al. 2021	not validly published
Pseudoflavitalea Kim et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Puia Lv et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Rurimicrobium Dahal et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Sediminibacterium Qu and Yuan 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Segetibacter An et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Solibius" Kim et al. 2010	not validly published
Taibaiella Zhang et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Terrimonas Xie and Yokota 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Thermoflavifilum Anders et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Vibrionimonas Albert et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	synonym

Parent taxon: Chitinophagales Munoz et al. 2017

Assigned by: 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.

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