Name: Owenweeksiaceae Huang et al. 2023

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: O.wen.week.si.a’ce.ae. N.L. fem. n. Owenweeksia, a bacterial genus; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Owenweeksiaceae, the Owenweeksia family

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: o-wen-week-si-A-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Owenweeksia Lau et al. 2005

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

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Schleiferiaceae Albuquerque et al. 2011

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Schleiferiaceae Albuquerque et al. 2011	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).

Parent taxon: Flavobacteriales Bernardet 2012

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. — Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083. 🇩🇪

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