Name: Kangiellaceae Wang et al. 2015

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Kang.i.el.la’ce.ae. N.L. fem. dim. n. Kangiella, the name of a bacterial genus; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Kangiellaceae, the Kangiella family

Pronunciation, gender: kan͡g-i-el-LA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Kangiella Yoon et al. 2004

Valid publication: Wang G, Tang M, Wu H, Dai S, Li T, Chen C, He H, Fan J, Xiang W, Li X. Aliikangiella marina gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine bacterium from the culture broth of Picochlorum sp. 122, and proposal of Kangiellaceae fam. nov. in the order Oceanospirillales. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:4488-4494.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 65, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1600-1602.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Pleioneaceae Wang et al. 2020	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Emendations:
  • Wang et al. 2020 Wang G, Dang G, Xu S, Liu J, Su H, Liang J, Huang W, Wang Y, Yu K. Aliikangiella coralliicola sp. nov., a bacterium isolated from coral Porites lutea, and proposal of Pleioneaceae fam. nov. to accommodate Pleionea and Aliikangiella. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5880-5887. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 70, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4645.
    Notes:
    • ⊖ Emendation accompanied by the removal of 2 genera from the family.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Flores-Felix et al. (2025) assigned this family to the order Pseudomonadales Orla-Jensen 1921 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Flores-Felix JD, Garcia-Fraile P, Saati-Santamaria Z. Harmony in diversity: Reorganizing the families within the order Pseudomonadales. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2025; 0:108321.
  • 🧕 Liao et al. (2020) assigned this family to the order Kangiellales Liao et al. 2021. Publication: Liao H, Lin X, Li Y, Qu M, Tian Y. Reclassification of the Taxonomic Framework of Orders Cellvibrionales, Oceanospirillales, Pseudomonadales, and Alteromonadales in Class Gammaproteobacteria through Phylogenomic Tree Analysis. mSystems 2020; 5:e00543-20.
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Alcanivoracaceae corrig. Golyshin et al. 2005. Publication: Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO. The SILVA and “all-species living tree project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; 42(D1):D643-D648.
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is -0.02737 (N = 18).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: KCTC: 12; JCM: 7; MCCC: 5; DSM: 4; CCUG: 2; BCRC: 2; KMM: 1; CGMCC: 1; NRIC: 1; CIP: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Aliikangiella Wang et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Kangiella Yoon et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pleionea Fagervold et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Oceanospirillales Garrity et al. 2005

Assigned by: Wang G, Tang M, Wu H, Dai S, Li T, Chen C, He H, Fan J, Xiang W, Li X. Aliikangiella marina gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine bacterium from the culture broth of Picochlorum sp. 122, and proposal of Kangiellaceae fam. nov. in the order Oceanospirillales. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:4488-4494.

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Record number: 2016