Name: "Parafrancisella" Öhrman et al. 2021

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Gender: feminine (stem: Parafrancisell-)

Type species: "Parafrancisella adeliensis" (Vallesi et al. 2019) Öhrman et al. 2021

Original publication: Ohrman C, Sahl JW, Sjodin A, Uneklint I, Ballard R, Karlsson L, McDonough RF, Sundell D, Soria K, Backman S, et al. Reorganized Genomic Taxonomy of Francisellaceae Enables Design of Robust Environmental PCR Assays for Detection of Francisella tularensis. Microorganisms 2021; 9:0.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Francisella Dorofeev 1947 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Vallesi A, Sjodin A, Petrelli D, Luporini P, Taddei AR, Thelaus J, Ohrman C, Nilsson E, Di Giuseppe G, Gutierrez G, et al. A New Species of the gamma-Proteobacterium Francisella, F. adeliensis Sp. Nov., Endocytobiont in an Antarctic Marine Ciliate and Potential Evolutionary Forerunner of Pathogenic Species. Microb Ecol 2019; 77:587-596.
  • 🧍 While the authors did not explicitly propose this taxon name, they did not provide a proper citation of the authority of the name either.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Parafrancisella adeliensis" (Vallesi et al. 2019) Öhrman et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Francisellaceae Sjöstedt 2005

Assigned by: Ohrman C, Sahl JW, Sjodin A, Uneklint I, Ballard R, Karlsson L, McDonough RF, Sundell D, Soria K, Backman S, et al. Reorganized Genomic Taxonomy of Francisellaceae Enables Design of Robust Environmental PCR Assays for Detection of Francisella tularensis. Microorganisms 2021; 9:0.

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Record number: 9188