Genus Allisonella

Name: Allisonella Garner et al. 2003

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: Al.li.so.nel’la. N.L. fem. dim. n. Allisonella, named after the American microbiologist Milton J. Allison, a prominent rumen microbiologist who isolated Oxalobacter formigenes, a ruminal bacterium that decarboxylates oxalate

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Allisonell-), al-li-so-NEL-la

Type species: Allisonella histaminiformans Garner et al. 2003

Effective publication: Garner MR, Flint JF, Russell JB. Allisonella histaminiformans gen. nov., sp. nov. A novel bacterium that produces histamine, utilizes histidine as its sole energy source, and could play a role in bovine and equine laminitis. Syst Appl Microbiol 2002; 25:498-506. 🇺🇸

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 90. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:373.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Dialister (ex Bergey et al. 1923) Moore and Moore 1994

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Dialister (ex Bergey et al. 1923) Moore and Moore 1994	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Dialisteraceae 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. 🇦🇺
  • 🧕 Marchandin et al. (2010) assigned this genus to the order Selenomonadales Marchandin et al. 2010. Publication: Marchandin H, Teyssier C, Campos J, Jean-Pierre H, Roger F, Gay B, Carlier JP, Jumas-Bilak E. Negativicoccus succinicivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from human clinical samples, emended description of the family Veillonellaceae and description of Negativicutes classis nov., Selenomonadales ord. nov. and Acidaminococcaceae fam. nov. in the bacterial phylum Firmicutes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1271-1279. 🇫🇷
  • 🚂 For the type species of this genus another name is in use, which is affiliated with the genus Dialister (ex Bergey et al. 1923) Moore and Moore 1994. Publication: Heng YC, Lee JKY, Silvaraju S, Kittelmann S. Description of Megasphaera jansseni sp. nov., a novel short- and medium-chain fatty acid-producing species isolated from faeces of a wild boar (Sus scrofa), and a taxonomic note on the family Veillonellaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6937. 🇸🇬
  • ❗ Allisonella is the correct name instead if this genus is regarded as a separate genus (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another genus whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: CCUG: 1; ATCC: 1; DSM: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Allisonella histaminiformans Garner et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	synonym

Parent taxon: Veillonellaceae Rogosa 1971 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Campbell C, Adeolu M, Gupta RS. Genome-based taxonomic framework for the class Negativicutes: division of the class Negativicutes into the orders Selenomonadales emend., Acidaminococcales ord. nov. and Veillonellales ord. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:3203-3215. 🇨🇦

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