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Family "Gemellaceae"

Classification: 

Bacteria Bacillati Bacillota Bacilli Caryophanales "Gemellaceae"

Name: "Gemellaceae" Madigan et al. 2019

Category, proposed as: family, fam. nov.

Etymology: Ge.mel.la’ce.ae. N.L. fem. pl. n. Gemellaceae, the Gemella family

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: ge-mel-LA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Gemella Berger 1960 (Approved Lists 1980)

Original publication: Madigan MT, Bender KS, Buckley DH, Sattley WM, Stahl DA. Brock Biology of Microorganisms. Fifteenth Edition. Global Edition. Pearson Education Limited, New York, NY, 2019. 🇺🇸

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Gemellaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024

  • Notes:
    • 🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Gemellaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Bello S, Mudassir SH, Rudra B, Gupta RS. Phylogenomic and molecular markers based studies on Staphylococcaceae and Gemella species. Proposals for an emended family Staphylococcaceae and three new families (Abyssicoccaceae fam. nov., Salinicoccaceae fam. nov. and Gemellaceae fam. nov.) harboring four new genera, Lacicoccus gen. nov., Macrococcoides gen. nov., Gemelliphila gen. nov., and Phocicoccus gen. nov. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2023; 116:937-973. 🇨🇦
    • 🚋 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Gemellaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Bello S, Mudassir SH, Rudra B, Gupta RS. Phylogenomic and molecular markers based studies on Staphylococcaceae and Gemella species. Proposals for an emended family Staphylococcaceae and three new families (Abyssicoccaceae fam. nov., Salinicoccaceae fam. nov. and Gemellaceae fam. nov.) harboring four new genera, Lacicoccus gen. nov., Macrococcoides gen. nov., Gemelliphila gen. nov., and Phocicoccus gen. nov. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2023; 116:937-973. 🇨🇦
    • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Gremellaceae".
    • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.03471 (N = 1).
    • 🧍 While the authors did not explicitly propose this taxon name, they did not provide a proper citation of the authority of the name either.

Parent taxon: Caryophanales Peshkoff 1939 (Approved Lists 1980)

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. — Freese HM, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Sarda Carbasse J, Afolayan AO, Goker M. TYGS and LPSN in 2025: a Global Core Biodata Resource for genome-based classification and nomenclature of prokaryotes within DSMZ Digital Diversity. Nucleic Acids Res 2026; 54:D884-D891. 🇩🇪

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Record number: 39614

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