Name: Colwelliaceae Ivanova et al. 2004

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Col.wel.li.a’ce.ae. N.L. fem. n. Colwellia, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Colwelliaceae, the Colwellia family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Colwellia Deming et al. 1988

Valid publication: Ivanova EP, Flavier S, Christen R. Phylogenetic relationships among marine Alteromonas-like proteobacteria: emended description of the family Alteromonadaceae and proposal of Pseudoalteromonadaceae fam. nov., Colwelliaceae fam. nov., Shewanellaceae fam. nov., Moritellaceae fam. nov., Ferrimonadaceae fam. nov., Idiomarinaceae fam. nov. and Psychromonadaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1773-1788.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 54, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:3-5.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Alteromonadaceae Ivanova and Mikhailov 2001. 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.
  • Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Zhang et al. (2014). 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: 31; JCM: 15; DSM: 14; NBRC: 11; CGMCC: 10; LMG: 9; MCCC: 9; BCRC: 6; ATCC: 5; CIP: 4.

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
    Cognaticolwellia Liu et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Colwellia Deming et al. 1988	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Litorilituus Wang et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Piscinibacterium Sheu et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudocolwellia Liu et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Thalassomonas Macián et al. 2001	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thalassotalea Zhang et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Alteromonadales Bowman and McMeekin 2005

Assigned by: Choi EJ, Kwon HC, Koh HY, Kim YS, Yang HO. Colwellia asteriadis sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from the starfish Asterias amurensis. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1952-1957.

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