Genus Gillisia

Name: Gillisia Van Trappen et al. 2004

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Gil.li’si.a. N.L. fem. n. Gillisia, named after Monique Gillis, a Belgian bacteriologist who has made major contributions to bacterial taxonomy

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Gillisi-), gil-LI-si-a

Type species: Gillisia limnaea Van Trappen et al. 2004

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Van Trappen S, Vandecandelaere I, Mergaert J, Swings J. Gillisia limnaea gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from a microbial mat in Lake Fryxell, Antarctica. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:445-448. 🇧🇪

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 54, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1007-1009.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Emendations:
- Roh et al. 2013 Roh SW, Lee M, Lee HW, Yim KJ, Heo SY, Kim KN, Yoon C, Nam YD, Kim JY, Hyun DW, et al. Gillisia marina sp. nov., from seashore sand, and emended description of the genus Gillisia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3640-3645. 🇰🇷 Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:6-7.
  Notes:
  - ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

Notes:
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Gilisia"; "Gillisiia".
- 😢 The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. Contrasting the term "chemotaxonomic" with "phenotypic" is not recommended. Whether taxa can have "members" is debatable. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details. Publication: Göker M. What can genome analysis offer for bacteria? In: Bridge P, Smith D, Stackebrandt E (eds), Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi, CAB International, Wallingford, 2021, p. 255-281. 🇬🇧
- 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.03429 (N = 5).
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 3; ACAM: 3; KCTC: 3; JCM: 3; CIP: 3; LMG: 2; NRRL: 1; KACC: 1; MCCC: 1; KMM: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 8
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 8
Total number of child taxa: 9

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Gillisia hiemivivida Bowman and Nichols 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Gillisia illustrilutea Bowman and Nichols 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Gillisia limnaea Van Trappen et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Gillisia lutea Vidal-Verdú et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Gillisia marina Roh et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Gillisia mitskevichiae Nedashkovskaya et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Gillisia myxillae Lee et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Gillisia sandarakina Bowman and Nichols 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Gillisia xinjiangensis" Wang et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: Flavobacteriaceae Reichenbach 1992

Assigned by: Van Trappen S, Vandecandelaere I, Mergaert J, Swings J. Gillisia limnaea gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from a microbial mat in Lake Fryxell, Antarctica. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:445-448. 🇧🇪

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Genus Gillisia