Name: Ornithobacterium Vandamme et al. 1994

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Or.ni.tho.bac.te.ri.um. Gr. n. ornis -ithos, bird; N.L. neut. n. bacterium, rod; N.L. neut. n. Ornithobacterium, bird bacterium, because it was first isolated from birds

Gender: neuter (stem: Ornithobacteri-)

Type species: Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale Vandamme et al. 1994

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Vandamme P, Segers P, Vancanneyt M, van Hove K, Mutters R, Hommez J, Dewhirst F, Paster B, Kersters K, Falsen E, et al. Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the avian respiratory tract. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1994; 44:24-37.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 44, part 1 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1994; 44:372.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Bernardet et al. (1996) assigned this genus to the family Flavobacteriaceae Reichenbach 1992. Publication: Bernardet JF, Segers P, Vancanneyt M, Berthe F, Kersters K, Vandamme P. Cutting a Gordian knot: emended classification and description of the genus Flavobacterium, emended description of the family Flavobacteriaceae, and proposal of Flavobacterium hydatis nom. nov. (basonym, Cytophaga aquatilis Strohl and Tait 1978). Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1996; 46:128-148.
  • 🧕 Bernardet et al. (2002) assigned this genus to the family Flavobacteriaceae Reichenbach 1992. Publication: Bernardet JF, Nakagawa Y, Holmes B. Proposed minimal standards for describing new taxa of the family Flavobacteriaceae and emended description of the family. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1049-1070.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Omcthobacterium"; "Omithobacterium"; "Ornithbacterium"; "Ornithobacteilwm"; "Ornithobactertium"; "Ornithobacterum"; "Ornitobacterium"; "Orthinobacterium".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: CCUG: 1; CIP: 1; DSM: 1; ATCC: 1.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 2 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 2". — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Ornithobacterium hominis" Salter et al. 2019	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale Vandamme et al. 1994	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Weeksellaceae García-López et al. 2020

Assigned by: Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083.

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