Name: Dysgonomonadaceae García-López et al. 2020

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Dys.go.no.mo.na.da’ce.ae. N.L. fem. n. Dysgonomonas, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Dysgonomonadaceae, the Dysgonomonas family

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: dys-go-no-mo-na-DA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Dysgonomonas Hofstad et al. 2000

Effective publication: Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083. 🇩🇪

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 193. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:2960-2966.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Dysgonomonadaceae" Ormerod et al. 2016	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Porphyromonadaceae Krieg 2012. Publication: Krieg NR. Family IV. Porphyromonadaceae fam. nov. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 4, Springer, New York, 2010, p. 61. 🇺🇸
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Dysgomonadaceae"; "Dysgonamonadaceae".
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Bowman JP. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes: Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Aerobic Bacteroidetes (formerly Flavobacterium and Cytophaga-like bacteria). Minutes of the open meeting, 10 July 2019, Glasgow, UK. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5966. 🇦🇺
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 18; DSM: 17; CCUG: 8; LMG: 4; CIP: 4; KCTC: 3; CECT: 3; ATCC: 2; GDMCC: 2; HUT: 2.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 8
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 10
Total number of child taxa: 10

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Anaerorudis El Houari et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Dysgonomonas Hofstad et al. 2000	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Fermentimonas Hahnke et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Indolivaga Takahashi et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Limibacterium Gu et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Petrimonas Grabowski et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Proteiniphilum Chen and Dong 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudodysgonomonas Takahashi et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Seramator Liu et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Viscerimonas Takahashi et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Bacteroidales Krieg 2012

Assigned by: Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083. 🇩🇪

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