Family Woeseiaceae

Name: Woeseiaceae Du et al. 2016

Category, proposed as: family, fam. nov.

Etymology: Woe.se.i.a’ce.ae. N.L. fem. n. Woeseia, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Woeseiaceae, the family of the genus Woeseia

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: wo͡e-se-i-A-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Woeseia Du et al. 2016

Valid publication: Du ZJ, Wang ZJ, Zhao JX, Chen GJ. Woeseia oceani gen. nov., sp. nov., a chemoheterotrophic member of the order Chromatiales, and proposal of Woeseiaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:107-112. 🇨🇳

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1607-1611.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this family to the order Woeseiales Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is -0.02585 (N = 7).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: MCCC: 3; KCTC: 3; CICC: 1; ATCC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Lentisalinibacter Lian et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Woeseia Du et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Chromatiales Imhoff 2005

Assigned by: Du ZJ, Wang ZJ, Zhao JX, Chen GJ. Woeseia oceani gen. nov., sp. nov., a chemoheterotrophic member of the order Chromatiales, and proposal of Woeseiaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:107-112. 🇨🇳

Linking: To permanently link to this page, use https://doi.org/10.83108/rn.2021Copy to clipboardLink copied to clipboard

Record number: 2021