Name: Skermania Chun et al. 1997

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Sker.ma’ni.a. N.L. fem. n. Skermania, named after Victor Skerman, an Australian taxonomist

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Skermani-), sker-MA-ni-a

Type species: Skermania pinensis corrig. (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 under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• 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.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Skemania".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 4; CIP: 2; UQM: 2; ATCC: 2; IFO: 2; NBRC: 2.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1". — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
  • 🧍 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: Oren A, Arahal DR, Christensen H, Goker M, Manaia CM, Moore ERB. International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Prokaryotic Code (2025 Revision). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2026; 76:6979. 🇮🇱

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: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Skermania pinensis corrig. (Blackall et al. 1989) Chun et al. 1997	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Skermania piniformis (Blackall et al. 1989) Chun et al. 1997	inaccurate spelling	misspelling

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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