Name: Lewinella Sly et al. 1998

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Le.wi.nel’la. L. fem. dim. n. suff. -ella, diminutive ending; N.L. fem. dim. n. Lewinella, named after Professor Ralph Lewin, who first isolated these organisms

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Lewinell-), le-wi-NEL-la

Type species: Lewinella cohaerens (Lewin 1970) Sly et al. 1998

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Sly LI, Taghavi M, Fegan M. Phylogenetic heterogeneity within the genus Herpetosiphon: transfer of the marine species Herpetosiphon cohaerens, Herpetosiphon nigricans and Herpetosiphon persicus to the genus Lewinella gen. nov. in the Flexibacter-Bacteroides-Cytophaga phylum. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:731-737. 🇦🇺

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 48, part 3 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:1085-1087.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Neolewinella Huang et al. 2022	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Emendations:
  • Khan et al. 2007 Khan ST, Fukunaga Y, Nakagawa Y, Harayama S. Emended descriptions of the genus Lewinella and of Lewinella cohaerens, Lewinella nigricans and Lewinella persica, and description of Lewinella lutea sp. nov. and Lewinella marina sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2946-2951. 🇯🇵 Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:531-532.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 2 new species in the genus.
  • Huang et al. 2022 Huang Z, Hong Q, Lai Q, Zhang Q. Portibacter marinus sp. nov., isolated from the sediment on the surface of plastics and proposal of a novel genus Neolewinella gen. nov. based on the genome-based phylogeny of the family Lewinellaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5561. 🇨🇳 Oren A, Göker M. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 72, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5762.
    Notes:
    • ⊖ Emendation accompanied by the removal of 11 species from the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Lewinellaceae Hahnke et al. 2017. Publication: Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:2003. 🇩🇪
  • 🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the family "Saprospiraceae". Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166. 🇺🇸
  • 🧕 Krieg et al. (2010) assigned this genus to the family Saprospiraceae Krieg et al. 2012. Publication: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB. Family III. Saprospiraceae fam. nov. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 4, Springer, New York, 2010, p. 358. 🇺🇸
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Herpetosiphon Holt and Lewin 1968 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Lewin RA. New Herpetosiphon species (Flexibacterales). Can J Microbiol 1970; 16:517-520.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Leiwinella".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Park et al. (2020). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: NBRC: 8; NCIMB: 5; DSM: 5; KCTC: 4; ATCC: 3; CECT: 3; KACC: 3; JCM: 1; KCCM: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 12
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 13
Total number of child taxa: 13

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Lewinella agarilytica Lee 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Lewinella antarctica Oh et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Lewinella aquimaris Jung et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Lewinella aurantiaca Kim et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Lewinella cohaerens (Lewin 1970) Sly et al. 1998	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Lewinella lacunae Kang et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Lewinella litorea Park et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Lewinella lutea Khan et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Lewinella marina Khan et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Lewinella maritima Kang et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Lewinella nigricans (Lewin 1970) Sly et al. 1998	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Lewinella persica (Lewin 1970) Sly et al. 1998	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Lewinella xylanilytica Sung et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Lewinellaceae Hahnke et al. 2017

Assigned by: Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:2003. 🇩🇪

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