Name: Leeia Lim et al. 2007

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Lee’i.a. N.L. fem. n. Leeia, named after Keho Lee, a Korean microbiologist who devoted his life to the study of food micro-organisms

Gender: feminine (stem: Leei-)

Type species: Leeia oryzae Lim et al. 2007

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Lim JM, Jeon CO, Lee GS, Park DJ, Kang UG, Park CY, Kim CJ. Leeia oryzae gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a rice field in Korea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1204-1208.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1935-1936.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Leeiaceae Chen et al. 2022. Publication: Chen S, Rudra B, Gupta RS. Phylogenomics and molecular signatures support division of the order Neisseriales into emended families Neisseriaceae and Chromobacteriaceae and three new families Aquaspirillaceae fam. nov., Chitinibacteraceae fam. nov., and Leeiaceae fam. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2021; 44:126251.
  • 🧕 Chen et al. (2021) assigned this genus to the family Leeiaceae Chen et al. 2022. Publication: Chen S, Rudra B, Gupta RS. Phylogenomics and molecular signatures support division of the order Neisseriales into emended families Neisseriaceae and Chromobacteriaceae and three new families Aquaspirillaceae fam. nov., Chitinibacteraceae fam. nov., and Leeiaceae fam. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2021; 44:126251.
  • 🧕 Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Neisseriaceae Prévot 1933 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO. The SILVA and “all-species living tree project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; 42(D1):D643-D648.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: KCTC: 2; NBRC: 1; TBRC: 1; DSM: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Leeia aquatica Song et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Leeia oryzae Lim et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Leeia speluncae Charoenyingcharoen et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Chromobacteriaceae Adeolu and Gupta 2013

Assigned by: Adeolu M, Gupta RS. Phylogenomics and molecular signatures for the order Neisseriales: proposal for division of the order Neisseriales into the emended family Neisseriaceae and Chromobacteriaceae fam. nov. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2013; 104:1-24.

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