Name: Eggerthellaceae Gupta et al. 2013

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Eg.ger.thel.la’ce.ae. N.L. fem. dim. n. Eggerthella, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Eggerthellaceae, the Eggerthella family

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: eg-ger-t^hel-LA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Eggerthella Wade et al. 1999

Valid publication: Gupta RS, Chen WJ, Adeolu M, Chai Y. Molecular signatures for the class Coriobacteriia and its different clades; proposal for division of the class Coriobacteriia into the emended order Coriobacteriales, containing the emended family Coriobacteriaceae and Atopobiaceae fam. nov., and Eggerthellales ord. nov., containing the family Eggerthellaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3379-3397. 🇨🇦

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:4371-4373.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Nouioui et al. 2018 Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007. 🇩🇪 Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 29. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:13-32.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 7 genera in the family.
  • Gupta 2021 Gupta RS. Eggerthellaceae. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2021, p. 1-11. 🇨🇦 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 15 genera in the family.

• Notes:
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Coriobacteriaceae Stackebrandt et al. 1997. Publication: Zhi XY, Li WJ, Stackebrandt E. An update of the structure and 16S rRNA gene sequence-based definition of higher ranks of the class Actinobacteria, with the proposal of two new suborders and four new families and emended descriptions of the existing higher taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:589-608. 🇨🇳
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Coriobacteriaceae Stackebrandt et al. 1997. 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 name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Eggthellaceae".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Danylec et al. (2019). 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: DSM: 40; CCUG: 29; JCM: 28; CSUR: 12; KCTC: 11; CGMCC: 8; ATCC: 7; GDMCC: 6; CIP: 4; LMG: 4.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 18
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 22
Total number of child taxa: 32

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Adlercreutzia Maruo et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Allenteromonas" Liu et al. 2020	not validly published	preferred name
    Anaerotardibacter Afrizal et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Candidatus Aphodovivens" Gilroy et al. 2021	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Arabia" Traore et al. 2017	not validly published	preferred name
    Arabiibacter Lo et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Asaccharobacter Minamida et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    "Candidatus Aveggerthella" Gilroy et al. 2021	not validly published	pro-correct name
    Berryella Wylensek et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Cryptobacterium Nakazawa et al. 1999	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Curtanaerobium Sun et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Denitrobacterium Anderson et al. 2000	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Eggerthella Kageyama et al. 1999	validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name	synonym
    Eggerthella Wade et al. 1999	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Ellagibacter Beltrán et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Enterorhabdus Clavel et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Enteroscipio Danylec et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Gordonibacter Würdemann et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Hugonella" Elsawi et al. 2017	not validly published	preferred name
    "Mucirhabdus" Liu et al. 2020	not validly published	preferred name
    Paraeggerthella Würdemann et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Parvibacter Clavel et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    "Phoenicibacter" Bilen et al. 2017	not validly published	preferred name
    Raoultibacter Traore et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Rubneribacter Danylec et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Senegalemassilia Lagier et al. 2014	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    Senegalimassilia corrig. Lagier et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Slackia Wade et al. 1999	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Stereobacter" Liu et al. 2020	not validly published	preferred name
    "Stereobacterium" Liu et al. 2020	not validly published	preferred name
    Umbribacter Srinivasan et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Xiamenia Zhang et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Eggerthellales Gupta et al. 2013

Assigned by: Gupta RS, Chen WJ, Adeolu M, Chai Y. Molecular signatures for the class Coriobacteriia and its different clades; proposal for division of the class Coriobacteriia into the emended order Coriobacteriales, containing the emended family Coriobacteriaceae and Atopobiaceae fam. nov., and Eggerthellales ord. nov., containing the family Eggerthellaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3379-3397. 🇨🇦

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