Genus Reinekea

Name: Reinekea Romanenko et al. 2004

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: Rei.ne’ke.a. N.L. fem. n. Reinekea, derived from Reineke, geographical name of Reineke Island, Peter the Great Bay, Sea of Japan, Russia, the place where the bacterium was first isolated

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Reineke-), re͡i-NE-ke-a

Type species: Reinekea marinisedimentorum Romanenko et al. 2004

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Romanenko LA, Schumann P, Rohde M, Mikhailov VV, Stackebrandt E. Reinekea marinisedimentorum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel gammaproteobacterium from marine coastal sediments. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:669-673. 🇩🇪

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 54, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1427-1428.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Kang et al. 2016 Kang H, Kim H, Joung Y, Joh K. Reinekea marina sp. nov., isolated from seawater, and emended description of the genus Reinekea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:360-364. 🇰🇷 Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1607-1611.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Flores-Felix et al. (2025) assigned this genus to the family Natronospirillaceae Kevbrin et al. 2020. Publication: Flores-Felix JD, Garcia-Fraile P, Saati-Santamaria Z. Harmony in diversity: Reorganizing the families within the order Pseudomonadales. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2025; 0:108321. 🇪🇸
  • 🧕 Kang et al. (2016) assigned this genus to the family Oceanospirillaceae Garrity et al. 2005. Publication: Kang H, Kim H, Joung Y, Joh K. Reinekea marina sp. nov., isolated from seawater, and emended description of the genus Reinekea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:360-364. 🇰🇷
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Reinekia".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 2; KACC: 2; CECT: 2; NBRC: 2; KCTC: 1; CCUG: 1; KCCM: 1; KMM: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 5
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 5
Total number of child taxa: 6

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Reinekea aestuarii Choi and Cho 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Reinekea blandensis Pinhassi et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Reinekea forsetii" Avci et al. 2017	not validly published	preferred name
    Reinekea marina Kang et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Reinekea marinisedimentorum Romanenko et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Reinekea thalattae Kim et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Saccharospirillaceae Kevbrin et al. 2020

Assigned by: Kevbrin V, Boltyanskaya Y, Grouzdev D, Koziaeva V, Park M, Cho JC. Natronospirillum operosum gen. nov., sp. nov., a haloalkaliphilic satellite isolated from decaying biomass of a laboratory culture of cyanobacterium Geitlerinema sp. and proposal of Natronospirillaceae fam. nov., Saccharospirillaceae fam. nov. and Gynuellaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:511-521. 🇷🇺

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