Name: Shewanellaceae Ivanova et al. 2004

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: She.wa.nel.la’ce.ae. N.L. fem. dim. n. Shewanella, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Shewanellaceae, the Shewanella family

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: s͡he-wa-nel-LA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Shewanella MacDonell and Colwell 1986

Valid publication: Ivanova EP, Flavier S, Christen R. Phylogenetic relationships among marine Alteromonas-like proteobacteria: emended description of the family Alteromonadaceae and proposal of Pseudoalteromonadaceae fam. nov., Colwelliaceae fam. nov., Shewanellaceae fam. nov., Moritellaceae fam. nov., Ferrimonadaceae fam. nov., Idiomarinaceae fam. nov. and Psychromonadaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1773-1788. 🇦🇺

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 54, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:3-5.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Flores-Félix et al. 2025 Flores-Felix JD, Garcia-Fraile P, Saati-Santamaria Z. Harmony in diversity: Reorganizing the families within the order Pseudomonadales. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2025; 0:108321. 🇪🇸 Oren A, Göker M. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 42. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6793.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 3 genera in the family.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Ivanova et al. (2004) assigned this family to the class "Gammaproteobacteria". Publication: Ivanova EP, Flavier S, Christen R. Phylogenetic relationships among marine Alteromonas-like proteobacteria: emended description of the family Alteromonadaceae and proposal of Pseudoalteromonadaceae fam. nov., Colwelliaceae fam. nov., Shewanellaceae fam. nov., Moritellaceae fam. nov., Ferrimonadaceae fam. nov., Idiomarinaceae fam. nov. and Psychromonadaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1773-1788. 🇦🇺
  • 🧒 Flores-Felix et al. (2025) assigned the genus Paraferrimonas Khan and Harayama 2007 to this family. Publication: Flores-Felix JD, Garcia-Fraile P, Saati-Santamaria Z. Harmony in diversity: Reorganizing the families within the order Pseudomonadales. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2025; 0:108321. 🇪🇸
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Alteromonadaceae Ivanova and Mikhailov 2001. Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166. 🇺🇸
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 48; KCTC: 47; DSM: 31; LMG: 21; ATCC: 20; GDMCC: 17; CCUG: 17; CIP: 16; NBRC: 15; MCCC: 11.
  • 🧍 In the paper by Ivanova et al. 2004, the type genus of the family Shewanellaceae is erroneously cited as Shewanella MacDonell and Colwell 1985. Publication: Euzeby JP. List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:590-592. 🇫🇷

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Parashewanella Xu et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Psychrobium Nogi et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Shewanella MacDonell and Colwell 1986	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Alteromonadales Bowman and McMeekin 2005

Assigned by: Li Y, Chan Y, Fu Y, Zhang R, Chiu JM. Coralslurrinella hongkonensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel bacterium in the family Psychromonadaceae, isolated from the coral Platygyra carnosus. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2013; 104:983-991. 🇨🇳

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