Name: Owenweeksia Lau et al. 2005

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: O.wen.week’si.a. N.L. fem. n. Owenweeksia, bacterial genus named after Owen B. Weeks, who did a lot of work in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s on Flavobacterium, Cytophaga and related species

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Owenweeksi-), o-wen-WEEK-si-a

Type species: Owenweeksia hongkongensis Lau et al. 2005

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Lau KW, Ng CY, Ren J, Lau SC, Qian PY, Wong PK, Lau TC, Wu M. Owenweeksia hongkongensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium of the phylum 'Bacteroidetes'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1051-1057.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 55, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1747-1749.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Shahina et al. 2013 Shahina M, Hameed A, Lin SY, Lai WA, Liu YC, Hsu YH, Young CC. Luteibaculum oceani gen. nov., sp. nov., a carotenoid-producing, lipolytic bacterium isolated from surface seawater, and emended description of the genus Owenweeksia Lau et al. 2005. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:4765-4770. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:697-699.
    Notes:
    • 😢 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.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Owenweeksiaceae Huang et al. 2023. Publication: Huang Z, Huang Y, Lai Q, Oren A, Wang W. Paracrocinitomix mangrovi gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a mangrove sediment: proposal of two new families, Phaeocystidibacteraceae fam. nov. and Owenweeksiaceae fam. nov., and emended description of the family Schleiferiaceae. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2023; 116:171-184.
  • 🧕 Huang et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Owenweeksiaceae Huang et al. 2023. Publication: Huang Z, Huang Y, Lai Q, Oren A, Wang W. Paracrocinitomix mangrovi gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a mangrove sediment: proposal of two new families, Phaeocystidibacteraceae fam. nov. and Owenweeksiaceae fam. nov., and emended description of the family Schleiferiaceae. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2023; 116:171-184.
  • 🧕 Lau et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Cryomorphaceae Bowman et al. 2003. Publication: Lau KW, Ng CY, Ren J, Lau SC, Qian PY, Wong PK, Lau TC, Wu M. Owenweeksia hongkongensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium of the phylum 'Bacteroidetes'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1051-1057.
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Bowman JP, Hugo C, Bernardet JF. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Aerobic Bacteroidetes (formerly Flavobacterium and Cytophaga-like bacteria). Minutes of the meeting, 30 July 2014, Montreal, Canada. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:507-509.
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is -0.01405 (N = 5).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 1; DSM: 1; NRRL: 1.

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: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Owenweeksia hongkongensis Lau et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Schleiferiaceae Albuquerque et al. 2011

Assigned by: Bowman JP. Out From the Shadows - Resolution of the Taxonomy of the Family Cryomorphaceae. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:795.

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