Genus Gemmiger

Name: Gemmiger Gossling and Moore 1975 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Gem’mi.ger. L. fem. n. gemma, a bud; L. masc. n. suff. -ger, one who carries, carrier; from L. v. gero, to bear; N.L. masc. n. Gemmiger, bud bearer

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Gemmiger-), GEM-mi-ger

Type species: Gemmiger formicilis Gossling and Moore 1975 (Approved Lists 1980)

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Gossling J, Moore WEC. Gemmiger formicilis, n. gen., n. sp., an anaerobic budding bacterium from intestines. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1975; 25:202-207.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Notes:
- 🧕 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Hyphomicrobiaceae Babudieri 1950 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Class I. Alphaproteobacteria class. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 1. 🇺🇸
- 🧕 Yarza et al. (2013) assigned this genus to the family Ruminococcaceae Rainey 2010. Publication: Yarza P, Sproer C, Swiderski J, Mrotzek N, Spring S, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Lang E, et al. Sequencing orphan species initiative (SOS): Filling the gaps in the 16S rRNA gene sequence database for all species with validly published names. Syst Appl Microbiol 2013; 36:69-73. 🇩🇪
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Gemmzger".
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 1; JCM: 1; ATCC: 1.
- 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "GEMM" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer. Publication: Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.

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: 14

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
"Candidatus Gemmiger avicola" Gilroy et al. 2021	not validly published	pro-correct name
"Candidatus Gemmiger avistercoris" Gilroy et al. 2021	not validly published	pro-correct name
"Candidatus Gemmiger avium" Gilroy et al. 2021	not validly published	pro-correct name
"Candidatus Gemmiger excrementavium" Gilroy et al. 2021	not validly published	pro-correct name
"Candidatus Gemmiger excrementigallinarum" Gilroy et al. 2021	not validly published	pro-correct name
"Candidatus Gemmiger excrementipullorum" Gilroy et al. 2021	not validly published	pro-correct name
"Candidatus Gemmiger faecavium" Gilroy et al. 2021	not validly published	pro-correct name
"Candidatus Gemmiger faecigallinarum" Gilroy et al. 2021	not validly published	pro-correct name
Gemmiger formicilis Gossling and Moore 1975 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Gemmiger gallinarum Zenner et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Gemmiger qucibialis" Zhang et al. 2023	not validly published	preferred name
"Candidatus Gemmiger stercoravium" Gilroy et al. 2021	not validly published	pro-correct name
"Candidatus Gemmiger stercorigallinarum" Gilroy et al. 2021	not validly published	pro-correct name
"Candidatus Gemmiger stercoripullorum" Gilroy et al. 2021	not validly published	pro-correct name

Parent taxon: Oscillospiraceae Peshkoff 1940 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Tindall BJ. The names Hungateiclostridium Zhang et al. 2018, Hungateiclostridium thermocellum (Viljoen et al. 1926) Zhang et al. 2018, Hungateiclostridium cellulolyticum (Patel et al. 1980) Zhang et al. 2018, Hungateiclostridium aldrichii (Yang et al. 1990) Zhang et al. 2018, Hungateiclostridium alkalicellulosi (Zhilina et al. 2006) Zhang et al. 2018, Hungateiclostridium clariflavum (Shiratori et al. 2009) Zhang et al. 2018, Hungateiclostridium straminisolvens (Kato et al. 2004) Zhang et al. 2018 and Hungateiclostridium saccincola (Koeck et al. 2016) Zhang et al. 2018 contravene Rule 51b of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes and require replacement names in the genus Acetivibrio Patel et al. 1980. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:3927-3932. 🇩🇪

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