Name: Escherichiaceae Goodfellow and Trüper 1982

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: E.sche.ri.chi.a’ce.ae. N.L. fem. n. Escherichia, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Escherichiaceae, the Escherichia family

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: e-s͡he-ri-k^hi-A-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Escherichia Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980)

Valid publication: Goodfellow M, TRuPER HG. Escherichiaceae nom. nov., a Name to Replace Enterobacteriaceae Request for an Opinion. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1982; 32:383-383. 🇬🇧

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Enterobacteriaceae Rahn 1937 (Approved Lists 1980)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Enterobacteriaceae (ex Rahn 1937) Ewing et al. 1980	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name
    Enterobacteriaceae Rahn 1937 (Approved Lists 1980)	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, conserved name
    Enterobacteraceae (ex Lapage 1979) Lapage 1982	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name

• Notes:
  • 🧒 Goodfellow and Trüper (1982) assigned the genus Escherichia Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980) to this family. Publication: Goodfellow M, TRuPER HG. Escherichiaceae nom. nov., a Name to Replace Enterobacteriaceae Request for an Opinion. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1982; 32:383-383. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Goodfellow and Trüper (1982) assigned the genus Shigella Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980) to this family. Publication: Goodfellow M, TRuPER HG. Escherichiaceae nom. nov., a Name to Replace Enterobacteriaceae Request for an Opinion. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1982; 32:383-383. 🇬🇧
  • 🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Enterobacteriaceae Rahn 1937 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Ewing WH, Farmer Iii JJ, Brenner DJ. Proposal of Enterobacteriaceae fam. nov., nom. rev. to replace Enterobacteriaceae Rahn 1937, nom. fam. cons. (Opin. 15, Jud. Comm. 1958), which lost standing in nomenclature on 1 January 1980. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1980; 30:674-675. 🇺🇸
  • 🚋 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Enterobacteriaceae Rahn 1937 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Hata H, Natori T, Mizuno T, Kanazawa I, Eldesouky I, Hayashi M, Miyata M, Fukunaga H, Ohji S, Hosoyama A, et al. Phylogenetics of family Enterobacteriaceae and proposal to reclassify Escherichia hermannii and Salmonella subterranea as Atlantibacter hermannii and Atlantibacter subterranea gen. nov., comb. nov. Microbiol Immunol 2016; 60:303-311. 🇯🇵
  • 😷 The taxon name shown here has no risk group assigned, but is the homotypic synonym of Enterobacteriaceae (ex Rahn 1937) Ewing et al. 1980, which has a risk group (Belgium) above 1. This may require that the name shown here is not treated as the correct name for practical purposes.
  • 😷 The taxon name shown here has no risk group assigned, but is the homotypic synonym of Enterobacteriaceae Rahn 1937 (Approved Lists 1980), which has a risk group (Belgium) above 1. This may require that the name shown here is not treated as the correct name for practical purposes.
  • 🧍 Later homotypic synonym of Enterobacteriaceae Rahn 1937 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Rahn O. New Principles for the Classification of Bacteria. Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde, Infektionskrankheiten und Hygiene. Abteilung II. 1937; 96:273-286.

Parent taxon: Enterobacterales Adeolu et al. 2016

Assigned by: LPSN automated production system. The following publication is only one of the sources consulted. It may or may not mention this taxon name. — Adeolu M, Alnajar S, Naushad S, S Gupta R. Genome-based phylogeny and taxonomy of the 'Enterobacteriales': proposal for Enterobacterales ord. nov. divided into the families Enterobacteriaceae, Erwiniaceae fam. nov., Pectobacteriaceae fam. nov., Yersiniaceae fam. nov., Hafniaceae fam. nov., Morganellaceae fam. nov., and Budviciaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:5575-5599. 🇨🇦

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