Name: Andreprevotia Weon et al. 2007

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: An.dre.pre.vo’ti.a. N.L. fem. n. Andreprevotia, named after André Romain Prévot, the French microbiologist who first named the family Neisseriaceae

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Andreprevoti-), an-dre-pre-WO-ti-a

Type species: Andreprevotia chitinilytica Weon et al. 2007

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Weon HY, Kim BY, Yoo SH, Joa JH, Kwon SW, Kim WG. Andreprevotia chitinilytica gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from forest soil from Halla Mountain, Jeju Island, Korea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1572-1575. 🇰🇷

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

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

Parent taxon: Chitinibacteraceae Chen et al. 2022

Assigned by: Chen S, Rudra B, Gupta RS. Phylogenomics and molecular signatures support division of the order Neisseriales into emended families Neisseriaceae and Chromobacteriaceae and three new families Aquaspirillaceae fam. nov., Chitinibacteraceae fam. nov., and Leeiaceae fam. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2021; 44:126251. 🇨🇦

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Record number: 516598
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