Name: Legionellaceae Brenner et al. 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

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

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Legionella Brenner et al. 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)

Effective publication: Brenner DJ, Steigerwalt AG, McDade JE. Classification of the Legionnaires' disease bacterium: Legionella pneumophila, genus novum, species nova, of the family Legionellaceae, familia nova. Ann Intern Med 1979; 90:656-658.

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 under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Saini and Gupta 2021 Saini N, Gupta RS. A robust phylogenetic framework for members of the order Legionellales and its main genera (Legionella, Aquicella, Coxiella and Rickettsiella) based on phylogenomic analyses and identification of molecular markers demarcating different clades. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2021; 114:957-982. 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 2 genera in the family.

• Notes:
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Legioneflaceae"; "Legionellceae"; "Legionrllaceae".
  • The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 64; CCUG: 63; ATCC: 62; CIP: 50; NCTC: 47; JCM: 19; KCTC: 4; NBIMCC: 2; CECT: 1; NBRC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 4
Total number of child taxa: 4

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Fluoribacter Garrity et al. 1980	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Legionella Brenner et al. 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sarcobium Drozanski 1991	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Tatlockia Garrity et al. 1980	validly published under the ICNP	synonym

Parent taxon: Legionellales Garrity et al. 2005

Assigned by: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Order VI. Legionellales ord. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part B (The Gammaproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 210.

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Record number: 744