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Family Chromobacteriaceae
Name: Chromobacteriaceae Adeolu and Gupta 2013
Etymology: Chro.mo.bac.te.ri.a’ce.ae. N.L. neut. n. Chromobacterium, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Chromobacteriaceae, the Chromobacterium family
Pronunciation (Latin), gender: khro-mo-bak-te-ri-A-ke-a͡e, feminine
Type genus: Chromobacterium Bergonzini 1880 (Approved Lists 1980)
Effective publication:
Adeolu M, Gupta RS. Phylogenomics and molecular signatures for the order Neisseriales: proposal for division of the order Neisseriales into the emended family Neisseriaceae and Chromobacteriaceae fam. nov. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2013; 104:1-24. 
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IJSEM list:
Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 153. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3131-3134.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name
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Emendations:
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Chen et al. 2021
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. 🇨🇦
Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 35. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5164.
Notes:- ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 9 genera in the family.
- ⊖ Emendation accompanied by the removal of 13 genera from the family.
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Chen et al. 2021
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.
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Notes:
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🧒 Adeolu and Gupta (2013) assigned the genus Andreprevotia Weon et al. 2007 to this family.
Publication:
Adeolu M, Gupta RS. Phylogenomics and molecular signatures for the order Neisseriales: proposal for division of the order Neisseriales into the emended family Neisseriaceae and Chromobacteriaceae fam. nov. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2013; 104:1-24. 🇨🇦
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🧒 Adeolu and Gupta (2013) assigned the genus Aquaspirillum Hylemon et al. 1973 (Approved Lists 1980) to this family.
Publication:
Adeolu M, Gupta RS. Phylogenomics and molecular signatures for the order Neisseriales: proposal for division of the order Neisseriales into the emended family Neisseriaceae and Chromobacteriaceae fam. nov. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2013; 104:1-24. 🇨🇦
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🧒 Adeolu and Gupta (2013) assigned the genus Chitinibacter Chern et al. 2004 to this family.
Publication:
Adeolu M, Gupta RS. Phylogenomics and molecular signatures for the order Neisseriales: proposal for division of the order Neisseriales into the emended family Neisseriaceae and Chromobacteriaceae fam. nov. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2013; 104:1-24. 🇨🇦
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🧒 Adeolu and Gupta (2013) assigned the genus Chitinilyticum Chang et al. 2007 to this family.
Publication:
Adeolu M, Gupta RS. Phylogenomics and molecular signatures for the order Neisseriales: proposal for division of the order Neisseriales into the emended family Neisseriaceae and Chromobacteriaceae fam. nov. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2013; 104:1-24. 🇨🇦
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🧒 Adeolu and Gupta (2013) assigned the genus Chitiniphilus Sato et al. 2009 to this family.
Publication:
Adeolu M, Gupta RS. Phylogenomics and molecular signatures for the order Neisseriales: proposal for division of the order Neisseriales into the emended family Neisseriaceae and Chromobacteriaceae fam. nov. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2013; 104:1-24. 🇨🇦
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🧒 Adeolu and Gupta (2013) assigned the genus Deefgea Stackebrandt et al. 2007 to this family.
Publication:
Adeolu M, Gupta RS. Phylogenomics and molecular signatures for the order Neisseriales: proposal for division of the order Neisseriales into the emended family Neisseriaceae and Chromobacteriaceae fam. nov. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2013; 104:1-24. 🇨🇦
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🧒 Adeolu and Gupta (2013) assigned the genus Formivibrio Tanaka et al. 1991 to this family.
Publication:
Adeolu M, Gupta RS. Phylogenomics and molecular signatures for the order Neisseriales: proposal for division of the order Neisseriales into the emended family Neisseriaceae and Chromobacteriaceae fam. nov. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2013; 104:1-24. 🇨🇦
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🧒 Adeolu and Gupta (2013) assigned the genus Iodobacter Logan 1989 to this family.
Publication:
Adeolu M, Gupta RS. Phylogenomics and molecular signatures for the order Neisseriales: proposal for division of the order Neisseriales into the emended family Neisseriaceae and Chromobacteriaceae fam. nov. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2013; 104:1-24. 🇨🇦
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🧒 Adeolu and Gupta (2013) assigned the genus Jeongeupia Yoon et al. 2010 to this family.
Publication:
Adeolu M, Gupta RS. Phylogenomics and molecular signatures for the order Neisseriales: proposal for division of the order Neisseriales into the emended family Neisseriaceae and Chromobacteriaceae fam. nov. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2013; 104:1-24. 🇨🇦
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🧒 Adeolu and Gupta (2013) assigned the genus Laribacter Yuen et al. 2002 to this family.
Publication:
Adeolu M, Gupta RS. Phylogenomics and molecular signatures for the order Neisseriales: proposal for division of the order Neisseriales into the emended family Neisseriaceae and Chromobacteriaceae fam. nov. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2013; 104:1-24. 🇨🇦
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🧒 Adeolu and Gupta (2013) assigned the genus Leeia Lim et al. 2007 to this family.
Publication:
Adeolu M, Gupta RS. Phylogenomics and molecular signatures for the order Neisseriales: proposal for division of the order Neisseriales into the emended family Neisseriaceae and Chromobacteriaceae fam. nov. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2013; 104:1-24. 🇨🇦
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🧒 Adeolu and Gupta (2013) assigned the genus Microvirgula Patureau et al. 1998 to this family.
Publication:
Adeolu M, Gupta RS. Phylogenomics and molecular signatures for the order Neisseriales: proposal for division of the order Neisseriales into the emended family Neisseriaceae and Chromobacteriaceae fam. nov. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2013; 104:1-24. 🇨🇦
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🧒 Adeolu and Gupta (2013) assigned the genus Silvimonas Yang et al. 2005 to this family.
Publication:
Adeolu M, Gupta RS. Phylogenomics and molecular signatures for the order Neisseriales: proposal for division of the order Neisseriales into the emended family Neisseriaceae and Chromobacteriaceae fam. nov. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2013; 104:1-24. 🇨🇦
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🧒 Chen et al. (2021) assigned the genus "Aquaphilus" Bourrain et al. 2012 to this family.
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. 🇨🇦
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🧒 Chen et al. (2021) assigned the genus Craterilacuibacter Liu et al. 2020 to this family.
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. 🇨🇦
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🧒 Chen et al. (2021) assigned the genus Crenobacter Dong et al. 2015 to this family.
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. 🇨🇦
- 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Neisseriaceae Prévot 1933 (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. 🇺🇸
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🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Rhizobiaceae Conn 1938 (Approved Lists 1980).
Publication:
Parker CD. Genus V. Thiobacillus Beijerinck 1904. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1957, p. 83-88.
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🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Rhizobiaceae Conn 1938 (Approved Lists 1980).
Publication:
Conn HJ. Taxonomic relationships of certain non-sporeforming rods in soil. Journal of Bacteriology 1938; 36:320-321.
- 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Rhizobiaceae Conn 1938 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Burkholder WH. Genus I. Pseudomonas Migula. Bacterial plant pathogens. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Hitchens AP (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 6th ed., The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1948, p. 82-150.
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Chromobacleriaceae".
- 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Sheu et al. (2016). 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 phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.07485 (N = 2).
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 27; LMG: 19; JCM: 12; KCTC: 11; ATCC: 10; BCRC: 8; CCUG: 7; NRRL: 7; KACC: 5; NBRC: 4.
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🧒 Adeolu and Gupta (2013) assigned the genus Andreprevotia Weon et al. 2007 to this family.
Publication:
Adeolu M, Gupta RS. Phylogenomics and molecular signatures for the order Neisseriales: proposal for division of the order Neisseriales into the emended family Neisseriaceae and Chromobacteriaceae fam. nov. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2013; 104:1-24.
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 7
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 7
Total number of child taxa: 7
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status Aquitalea Lau et al. 2006 validly published under the ICNP correct name Chromobacterium Bergonzini 1880 (Approved Lists 1980) validly published under the ICNP, conserved name correct name Gulbenkiania Vaz-Moreira et al. 2007 validly published under the ICNP correct name Paludibacterium Kwon et al. 2008 validly published under the ICNP correct name Prolinoborus Pot et al. 1992 validly published under the ICNP correct name Pseudogulbenkiania Lin et al. 2008 validly published under the ICNP correct name Vogesella Grimes et al. 1997 validly published under the ICNP correct name
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Parent taxon: Neisseriales Tønjum 2006
Assigned by:
Adeolu M, Gupta RS. Phylogenomics and molecular signatures for the order Neisseriales: proposal for division of the order Neisseriales into the emended family Neisseriaceae and Chromobacteriaceae fam. nov. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2013; 104:1-24. 🇨🇦
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Record number: 1958
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