Etymology:
Ow.en.week.si.a.ce’ae. N.L. fem. n.Owenweeksia, a bacterial genus; -aecae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n.Owenweeksiaceae, the Owenweeksia family
Effective publication:
Huang Z, Huang Y, Lai Q, Oren A, Wang W. Paracrocinitomix mangrovi gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a mangrove sediment: proposal of two new families, Phaeocystidibacteraceae fam. nov. and Owenweeksiaceae fam. nov., and emended description of the family Schleiferiaceae. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2023; 116:171-184.
IJSEM list:
Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 213. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5997.
Nomenclatural status:
validly published under the ICNP
heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
Notes:
🧒 Huang et al. (2023) assigned the genus Owenweeksia Lau et al. 2005 to this family.Publication:
Huang Z, Huang Y, Lai Q, Oren A, Wang W. Paracrocinitomix mangrovi gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a mangrove sediment: proposal of two new families, Phaeocystidibacteraceae fam. nov. and Owenweeksiaceae fam. nov., and emended description of the family Schleiferiaceae. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2023; 116:171-184.
🧒 Huang et al. (2023) assigned the genus Croceimicrobium Liu et al. 2021 to this family.Publication:
Huang Z, Huang Y, Lai Q, Oren A, Wang W. Paracrocinitomix mangrovi gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a mangrove sediment: proposal of two new families, Phaeocystidibacteraceae fam. nov. and Owenweeksiaceae fam. nov., and emended description of the family Schleiferiaceae. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2023; 116:171-184.
🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Schleiferiaceae Albuquerque et al. 2011.Publication:
Bowman JP. Out From the Shadows - Resolution of the Taxonomy of the Family Cryomorphaceae. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:795.
🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Cryomorphaceae Bowman et al. 2003.Publication:
Lau KW, Ng CY, Ren J, Lau SC, Qian PY, Wong PK, Lau TC, Wu M. Owenweeksia hongkongensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium of the phylum 'Bacteroidetes'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1051-1057.
❗ Owenweeksiaceae is the correct name instead if this family is regarded as a separate family (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another family whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority).
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