Name: Elainella Jahodářová et al. 2018

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: E.lai.nel’la. N.L. fem. dim. n. Elainella, derived from Elaine, the Lady of the Lake, who lived in a castle that was beneath a lake surrounding island of Avalon

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Elainell-), e-lai-NEL-la

Type species: Elainella saxicola Jahodářová et al. 2018

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Jahodářová E, Dvořák P, Hašler P, Holušová K, Poulíčková A. Elainella gen. nov.: a new tropical cyanobacterium characterized using a complex genomic approach. European Journal of Phycology 2018; 53:39-51.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Elainellaceae 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.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order Elainellales 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.
  • 🧕 Jahodarova et al. (2018) assigned this genus to the family Leptolyngbyaceae Komárek et al. 2014. Publication: Jahodářová E, Dvořák P, Hašler P, Holušová K, Poulíčková A. Elainella gen. nov.: a new tropical cyanobacterium characterized using a complex genomic approach. European Journal of Phycology 2018; 53:39-51.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Elainelila".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: OLM: 1; UPOC: 1.
  • 🧍 Full authorship: Jahodářová, Dvořák and Hašler.

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
    Elainella chongqingensis Shen et al. 2023	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Elainella saxicola Jahodářová et al. 2018	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Oculatellaceae Mai and Johansen 2018

Assigned by: Strunecky O, Ivanova AP, Mares J. An updated classification of cyanobacterial orders and families based on phylogenomic and polyphasic analysis. J Phycol 2023; 59:12-51.

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