Name: Demetria Groth et al. 1997

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: De.me.tri.a. Gr. fem. n. Dêmêtêr, Greek female god of agriculture and wives; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ia, ending to denote a class; N.L. fem. n. Demetria, belonging to Dêmêtêr, intended to mean a bacterium being responsible for fertility

Gender: feminine (stem: Demetri-)

Type species: Demetria terragena Groth et al. 1997

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Groth I, Schumann P, Rainey FA, Martin K, Schuetze B, Augsten K. Demetria terragena gen. nov., sp. nov., a new genus of actinomycetes isolated from compost soil. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:1129-1133.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 47, part 4 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:329-330.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the family Micrococcaceae Pribram 1929 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Demetrla"; "Dernetria".
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.03858 (N = 10).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: NBRC: 1; JCM: 1; IFO: 1; DSM: 1; CIP: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
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
    Demetria terragena Groth et al. 1997	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Dermacoccaceae Schumann and Stackebrandt 2000

Assigned by: Stackebrandt E, Schumann P. Description of Bogoriellaceae fam. nov., Dermacoccaceae fam. nov., Rarobacteraceae fam. nov. and Sanguibacteraceae fam. nov. and emendation of some families of the suborder Micrococcineae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:1279-1285.

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