Genus Siansivirga

Name: Siansivirga Hameed et al. 2013

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Si.an.si.vir’ga. N.L. n. Siansi, a township in Taiwan; L. fem. n. virga, stick; N.L. fem. n. Siansivirga, stick of Siansi

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Siansivirg-), si-an-si-WIR-ga

Type species: Siansivirga zeaxanthinifaciens Hameed et al. 2013

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Hameed A, Shahina M, Lin SY, Sridhar KR, Young LS, Lee MR, Chen WM, Chou JH, Young CC. Siansivirga zeaxanthinifaciens gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel zeaxanthin-producing member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from coastal seawater of Taiwan. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2012; 333:37-45. 🇹🇼

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 149. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1-5.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Emendations:
- Park et al. 2014 Park JM, Han SK, Lee DG, Kang H, Trujillo ME, Lee DK. Siansivirga jejuensis [corrected] sp. nov., isolated from seawater of Jeju Island in Korea and emendation of the genus Siansivirga. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2014; 106:763-769. 🇰🇷 Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 21. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:7-10.

Notes:
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Siansivira".
- 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Park et al. (2015). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: KCCM: 6; JCM: 4; BCRC: 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: 4

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Siansivirga jejuensis corrig. Park et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Siansivirga jejunensis" Park et al. 2014	not validly published	synonym
Siansivirga jejunensis Park et al. 2015	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
Siansivirga zeaxanthinifaciens Hameed et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Flavobacteriaceae Reichenbach 1992

Assigned by: Hameed A, Shahina M, Lin SY, Sridhar KR, Young LS, Lee MR, Chen WM, Chou JH, Young CC. Siansivirga zeaxanthinifaciens gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel zeaxanthin-producing member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from coastal seawater of Taiwan. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2012; 333:37-45. 🇹🇼

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