Name: Paraeggerthella Würdemann et al. 2009

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Gr. prep. para, beside, alongside of, near, like; N.L. fem. dim. n. Eggerthella, a bacterial genus name; N.L. fem. dim. n. Paraeggerthella, beside Eggerthella, named in recognition of the close relationship to the genus Eggerthella

Gender: feminine (stem: Paraeggerthell-)

Type species: Paraeggerthella hongkongensis (Lau et al. 2006) Würdemann et al. 2009

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Wurdemann D, Tindall BJ, Pukall R, Lunsdorf H, Strompl C, Namuth T, Nahrstedt H, Wos-Oxley M, Ott S, Schreiber S, et al. Gordonibacter pamelaeae gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the Coriobacteriaceae isolated from a patient with Crohn's disease, and reclassification of Eggerthella hongkongensis Lau et al. 2006 as Paraeggerthella hongkongensis gen. nov., comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1405-1415.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2131-2132.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Coriobacteriaceae Stackebrandt et al. 1997. 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 type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Eggerthella Kageyama et al. 1999. Publication: Lau SK, Woo PC, Woo GK, Fung AM, Wong MK, Chan KM, Tam DM, Yuen KY. Eggerthella hongkongensis sp. nov. and eggerthella sinensis sp. nov., two novel Eggerthella species, account for half of the cases of Eggerthella bacteremia. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 2004; 49:255-263.
  • The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: KCTC: 1; DSM: 1; CCUG: 1; LMG: 1; JCM: 1; CGMCC: 1.

Subdivision:

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

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Paraeggerthella hominis Abdugheni et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Paraeggerthella hongkongensis (Lau et al. 2006) Würdemann et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Eggerthellaceae Gupta et al. 2013

Assigned by: Gupta RS, Chen WJ, Adeolu M, Chai Y. Molecular signatures for the class Coriobacteriia and its different clades; proposal for division of the class Coriobacteriia into the emended order Coriobacteriales, containing the emended family Coriobacteriaceae and Atopobiaceae fam. nov., and Eggerthellales ord. nov., containing the family Eggerthellaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3379-3397.

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