Name: Dawidia Octaviana et al. 2025

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Da.wi’di.a. N.L. fem. n. Dawidia, named in honor of the German microbiologist Dr. Wolfgang Dawid, author of Experimentelle Mikrobiologie

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Dawidi-), da-WI-di-a

Type species: Dawidia cretensis Octaviana et al. 2025

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Octaviana S, Lorenczyk S, Ackert F, Fenske L, Wink J. Four new members of the family Cytophagaceae: Chryseosolibacter histidini gen. nov., sp. nov., Chryseosolibacter indicus gen. nov., sp. nov., Dawidia cretensis, gen. nov., sp. nov., and Dawidia soli, gen. nov., sp. nov. isolated from diverse habitat. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2022; 115:1059-1072.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 225. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6863.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Lu et al. (2024) assigned this genus to the family Chryseotaleaceae Lu et al. 2024. Publication: Lu H, Chen L, Huang L. Arcicella gelida sp. nov. and Arcicella lustrica sp. nov., isolated from streams in China and re-examining the taxonomic status of all the genera within the families Spirosomataceae and Cytophagaceae. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 2024; 74:0.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Pacific".
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Bowman JP, Hugo C, Nicholson A, Hahnke R, Lau EF, Holmes B, Sutcliffe I. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes: Subcommittee on the taxonomy of aerobic Bacteroidota. Minutes of the online meeting 25 April 2023. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:6144.
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Bowman JP, Hugo C, Nicholson A, Hahnke R, Lau EF, Holmes B, Sutcliffe I. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes: Subcommittee on the taxonomy of aerobic Bacteroidota. Minutes of the online meeting 25 April 2023. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 2023; 73:0.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 2; NCCB: 2.

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
    Dawidia cretensis Octaviana et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Dawidia soli Octaviana et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Cytophagaceae Stanier 1940 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Octaviana S, Lorenczyk S, Ackert F, Fenske L, Wink J. Four new members of the family Cytophagaceae: Chryseosolibacter histidini gen. nov., sp. nov., Chryseosolibacter indicus gen. nov., sp. nov., Dawidia cretensis, gen. nov., sp. nov., and Dawidia soli, gen. nov., sp. nov. isolated from diverse habitat. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2022; 115:1059-1072.

Linking: To permanently link to this page, use https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/dawidiaCopy to clipboardLink copied to clipboard

Record number: 67873