Name: Skermania Chun et al. 1997

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. n. Skermania, named after Victor Skerman, an Australian taxonomist

Gender: feminine

Type species: Skermania piniformis (Blackall et al. 1989) Chun et al. 1997

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Chun J, Blackall LL, Kang SO, Hah YC, Goodfellow M. A proposal to reclassify Nocardia pinensis Blackall et al. as Skermania piniformis gen. nov., comb. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:127-131.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 47, part 1 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:603.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the family Gordoniaceae Rainey et al. 1997. Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166.
  • The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Nocardia Trevisan 1889 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Blackall LL, Parlett JH, Hayward AC, Minnikin DE, Greenfield PF, Harbers AE. Nocardia pinensis sp. nov., an actinomycete found in activated sludge foams in Australia. J. Gen. Microbiol. 1989; 135:1547-1558.
  • The gender of the genus name is not given by Chun et al. 1997. According to Recommendation 10a (2), Skermania should be in the feminine gender. Publication: Parker CT, Tindall BJ, Garrity GM. International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:S1-S111.

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

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Skermania piniformis (Blackall et al. 1989) Chun et al. 1997	validly published	correct name

Parent taxon: Nocardiaceae Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Zhi XY, Li WJ, Stackebrandt E. An update of the structure and 16S rRNA gene sequence-based definition of higher ranks of the class Actinobacteria, with the proposal of two new suborders and four new families and emended descriptions of the existing higher taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:589-608.

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