Name: Ehrlichiaceae Moshkovski 1945 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. n. Ehrlichia, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Ehrlichiaceae, the Ehrlichia family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Ehrlichia Moshkovski 1945 (Approved Lists 1980)

Original publication: Moshkovski SD. Cytotropic pathogenic infections and place of Rickettsia in the system of Chlamydozoa. Advances in Modern Biology (Moscow) 1945; 19:1-44.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Anaplasmataceae Philip 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)	heterotypic synonym, validly published

• Emendations:
  • Hördt et al. 2020 Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.
    Notes:
    • Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 5 genera in the family.
    • As of 2020-04-15 this emendation was not yet included in an IJSEM List of Changes in Taxonomic Opinion.

• Notes:
  • The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Anaplasmataceae Philip 1957 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Dumler JS, Barbet AF, Bekker CP, Dasch GA, Palmer GH, Ray SC, Rikihisa Y, Rurangirwa FR. Reorganization of genera in the families Rickettsiaceae and Anaplasmataceae in the order Rickettsiales: unification of some species of Ehrlichia with Anaplasma, Cowdria with Ehrlichia and Ehrlichia with Neorickettsia, descriptions of six new species combinations and designation of Ehrlichia equi and 'HGE agent' as subjective synonyms of Ehrlichia phagocytophila. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:2145-2165.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 6
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 7
Total number of child taxa: 10

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Aegyptianella Carpano 1929 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name
    Anaplasma Theiler 1910 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name
    Cowdria Moshkovski 1947 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	synonym
    [Cryptoplasma]	artificial parent node of Candidatus species that lack a genus description
    Ehrlichia Moshkovski 1945 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name
    Lyticum (ex Preer et al. 1974) Preer and Preer 1982	validly published	correct name
    [Neoehrlichia]	artificial parent node of Candidatus species that lack a genus description
    Neorickettsia Philip et al. 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name
    [Theileria]	artificial parent node of Candidatus species that lack a genus description
    Wolbachia Hertig 1936 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name

Parent taxon: Rickettsiales Gieszczykiewicz 1939 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: 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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