Name: Silvimonas Yang et al. 2005

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Sil.vi’mo.nas. L. fem. n. silva, forest; L. fem. n. monas, a unit, monad; N.L. fem. n. Silvimonas, forest monad

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Silvimonad-), sil-WI-mo-nas

Type species: Silvimonas terrae Yang et al. 2005

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Yang HC, Im WT, An DS, Park WS, Kim IS, Lee ST. Silvimonas terrae gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel chitin-degrading facultative anaerobe belonging to the 'Betaproteobacteria'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:2329-2332. 🇰🇷

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 55, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:319-321.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 4
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 4
Total number of child taxa: 4

Parent taxon: Chitinibacteraceae Chen et al. 2022

Assigned by: Chen S, Rudra B, Gupta RS. Phylogenomics and molecular signatures support division of the order Neisseriales into emended families Neisseriaceae and Chromobacteriaceae and three new families Aquaspirillaceae fam. nov., Chitinibacteraceae fam. nov., and Leeiaceae fam. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2021; 44:126251. 🇨🇦

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Record number: 516599
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