Name: Alloscardovia Huys et al. 2007

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Al.lo.scar.do’vi.a. Gr. masc. pron. allos, different; N.L. fem. n. Scardovia, a bacterial generic name; N.L. fem. n. Alloscardovia, organism related to, but different from, Scardovia and related genera

Gender: feminine (stem: Alloscardovi-)

Type species: Alloscardovia omnicolens Huys et al. 2007

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Huys G, Vancanneyt M, D'Haene K, Falsen E, Wauters G, Vandamme P. Alloscardovia omnicolens gen. nov., sp. nov., from human clinical samples. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1442-1446.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2189-2190.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Metascardovia Okamoto et al. 2007	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Emendations:
  • Killer et al. 2013 Killer J, Rockova S, Vlkova E, Rada V, Havlik J, Kopecny J, Bunesova V, Benada O, Kofronova O, Pechar R, et al. Alloscardovia macacae sp. nov., isolated from the milk of a macaque (Macaca mulatta), emended description of the genus Alloscardovia and proposal of Alloscardovia criceti comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:4439-4446. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:697-699.
    Notes:
    • Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 2 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Alloscardo".
  • This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Mattarelli P, Felis GE, Holzapfel WH, Franz CMAP. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Bifidobacterium, Lactobacillus and related organisms. Minutes of closed and open meetings, 3 September 2018, Berlin, Germany. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:1521-1523.
  • Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Sechovcova et al. (2017). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
  • The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 5; CCM: 2; JCM: 2; LMG: 2; CCUG: 1.

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: 5

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Alloscardovia criceti (Okamoto et al. 2007) Killer et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alloscardovia macacae Killer et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alloscardovia omnicolens Huys et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alloscardovia theropitheci Modesto et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alloscardovia venturai Sechovcová et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Bifidobacteriaceae Stackebrandt et al. 1997

Assigned by: Zhi XY, Li WJ, Stackebrandt E. An update of the structure and 16S rRNA gene sequence-based definition of higher ranks of the class Actinobacteria, with the proposal of two new suborders and four new families and emended descriptions of the existing higher taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:589-608.

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