Name: Pleioneaceae Wang et al. 2020

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Ple.io.ne.a.ce’ae. N.L. fem. n. Pleionea, name of a bacterial genus; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Pleioneaceae, the Pleionea family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Pleionea Fagervold et al. 2013

Valid publication: 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.

IJSEM list: 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.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Kangiellaceae Wang et al. 2015

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Kangiellaceae Wang et al. 2015	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧒 Wang et al. (2020) assigned the genus Pleionea Fagervold et al. 2013 to this family. Publication: 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.
  • 🧒 Wang et al. (2020) assigned the genus Aliikangiella Wang et al. 2015 to this family. Publication: 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.
  • 🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Kangiellaceae Wang et al. 2015. 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.
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Alcanivoracaceae corrig. Golyshin et al. 2005. Publication: Ludwig W, Viver T, Westram R, Francisco Gago J, Bustos-Caparros E, Knittel K, Amann R, Rossello-Mora R. Release LTP_12_2020, featuring a new ARB alignment and improved 16S rRNA tree for prokaryotic type strains. Syst Appl Microbiol 2021; 44:126218.
  • ❗ Pleioneaceae 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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