Name: Sporocytophaga Stanier 1940 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Spo.ro.cy.to’pha.ga. Gr. fem. n. spora, a seed, and in biology a spore; N.L. fem. n. Cytophaga, genus name of a bacterium; N.L. fem. n. Sporocytophaga, sporing Cytophaga

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Sporocytophag-), spo-ro-ky-TO-p^ha-ga

Type species: Sporocytophaga myxococcoides (Krzemieniewska 1933) Stanier 1940 (Approved Lists 1980)

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Stanier RY. Studies on the Cytophagas. J Bacteriol 1940; 40:619-635.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the family "Flexibacteraceae" Garrity and Holt 2001. 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.
  • 🧕 Breed et al. (1948) assigned this genus to the family Myxococcaceae Jahn 1924 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Burkholder WH. Genus I. Pseudomonas Migula. Bacterial plant pathogens. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Hitchens AP (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 6th ed., The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1948, p. 82-150.
  • 🧕 Breed et al. (1957) assigned this genus to the family Myxococcaceae Jahn 1924 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Parker CD. Genus V. Thiobacillus Beijerinck 1904. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1957, p. 83-88.
  • 🧕 Krieg et al. (2010) assigned this genus to the class Cytophagia Nakagawa 2012. Publication: Nakagawa Y. Class IV. Cytophagia class. nov. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 4, Springer, New York, 2010, p. 370.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Cytophaga Winogradsky 1929 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Krzemieniewska H. Contribution à l'étude du genre Cytophaga (Winogradsky). Archiv für Mikrobiologie 1933; 4:394-408.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Sporecytophaga"; "Sporocvtophaga"; "Sporocylophaga"; "Sporocytaphaga"; "Sporocytopbaga"; "Sporocytophaqa"; "Sporocytvphaga"; "Sporocywphaga"; "Sporocyzophaga"; "Sporvcytophaga"; "Spurocytophaga".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 1; LMG: 1; ATCC: 1.
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "SOCY" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer. Publication: Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.

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
    Sporocytophaga myxococcoides (Krzemieniewska 1933) Stanier 1940 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Cytophagaceae Stanier 1940 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:2003.

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