Name: Rikenellaceae Krieg et al. 2012

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

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

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Rikenella Collins et al. 1985

Effective publication: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB. Family III. Rikenellaceae fam. nov. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 4, Springer, New York, 2010, p. 54.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 143. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1-4.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • García-López et al. 2019 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. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.
    Notes:
    • ⊖ Emendation accompanied by the removal of 1 genus from the family.

• Notes:
  • 🧒 Su et al. (2014) assigned the genus Acetobacteroides Su et al. 2014 to this family. Publication: Su XL, Tian Q, Zhang J, Yuan XZ, Shi XS, Guo RB, Qiu YL. Acetobacteroides hydrogenigenes gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic hydrogen-producing bacterium in the family Rikenellaceae isolated from a reed swamp. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2986-2991.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Rikenellacea"; "Rikennellaceae"; "Rykenellaceae".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 18; JCM: 11; CCUG: 6; ATCC: 5; CIP: 2; KCTC: 1; NCTC: 1; CGMCC: 1; CECT: 1; VKM: 1.
  • 🧍 In Validation List No. 143, the year of publication of Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 4 was erroneously cited as 2010. The correct year of publication should be 2011. Publication: . Erratum. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2012; 62:1016.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 5
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 5
Total number of child taxa: 9

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Alistipes Rautio et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Anaerocella Abe et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Candidatus Avirikenella" Gilroy et al. 2021	not validly published	pro-correct name
    Gallalistipes Zenner et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Millionella" Mailhe et al. 2017	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    Mucinivorans Nelson et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Rikenella Collins et al. 1985	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Ruminofilibacter" Weiss et al. 2011	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Tidjanibacter" Mailhe et al. 2017	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Bacteroidales Krieg 2012

Assigned by: Krieg NR. Order I. Bacteroidales ord. nov. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 4, Springer, New York, 2010, p. 25.

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