Genus Leeia

Name: Leeia Lim et al. 2007

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

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

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Leei-), LEE-ia

Type species: Leeia oryzae Lim et al. 2007

16S rRNA gene: Analysetree FASTA download

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

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

Parent taxon: Leeiaceae Chen et al. 2022

Assigned by: 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. 🇨🇦

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