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Genus Shuttleworthella

Name: Shuttleworthella Deshmukh and Oren 2024

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: Shut.tle.wor.thel’la. N.L. fem. dim. n. Shuttleworthella, named after the British microbiologist Cyril Shuttleworth

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Shuttleworthell-), s͡hut-tle-wor-THEL-la

Type species: Shuttleworthella satelles (Downes et al. 2002) Deshmukh and Oren 2024

16S rRNA gene: Analysetree FASTA download

Valid publication: Deshmukh UB, Oren A. Proposal of Shuttleworthella gen. nov. and Nostocoides gen. nov. as replacement names for the illegitimate prokaryotic generic names Shuttleworthia and Tetrasphaera, respectively. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6318. 🇮🇱

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 74, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6391.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

  • Notes:
    • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Shuttleworthia Downes et al. 2002. Publication: Downes J, Munson MA, Radford DR, Spratt DA, Wade WG. Shuttleworthia satelles gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the human oral cavity. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1469-1475. 🇬🇧
    • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Shuttleworthiella".
    • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.05705 (N = 16).
    • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 1; CCUG: 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

Parent taxon: Lachnospiraceae Rainey 2010

Assigned by: Deshmukh UB, Oren A. Proposal of Shuttleworthella gen. nov. and Nostocoides gen. nov. as replacement names for the illegitimate prokaryotic generic names Shuttleworthia and Tetrasphaera, respectively. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6318. 🇮🇱

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Record number: 46817

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