Name: Turneriella Levett et al. 2005

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Tur.ne.ri.el’la. N.L. fem. dim. n. Turneriella, to honour Leslie Turner, an English medical microbiologist who made definitive contributions to the knowledge of leptospirosis

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Turneriell-), tur-ne-ri-EL-la

Type species: Turneriella parva (Hovind-Hougen et al. 1982) Levett et al. 2005

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Levett PN, Morey RE, Galloway R, Steigerwalt AG, Ellis WA. Reclassification of Leptospira parva Hovind-Hougen et al. 1982 as Turneriella parva gen. nov., comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1497-1499.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 55, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:2239-2241.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Turneria" Hookey et al. 1993	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Turneriellaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order Turneriellales Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Turneriellaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the order Turneriellales Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus "Turneria" Hookey et al. 1993. Publication: Hookey JV, Bryden J, Gatehouse L. The use of 16S rDNA sequence analysis to investigate the phylogeny of Leptospiraceae and related spirochaetes. J Gen Microbiol 1993; 139:2585-2590.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Leptospira Noguchi 1917 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Hovind-Hougen K, Ellis WA, Birch-Andersen A. Leptospira parva sp.npv.: some morphological and biological characters. Zentralbl Bakteriol Mikrobiol Hyg A Med Mikrobiol Infekt Parasitol 1981; 250:343-354.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Turnerella".
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Levett PN, Smythe L. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes; Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Leptospiraceae. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 2006; 56:2019-2020.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: ATCC: 1; NCTC: 1; DSM: 1.
  • 🧍 The genus Turneriella Levett et al. 2005 was previously known as "Turneria" Hookey et al. 1993. Publication: Hookey JV, Bryden J, Gatehouse L. The use of 16S rDNA sequence analysis to investigate the phylogeny of Leptospiraceae and related spirochaetes. J Gen Microbiol 1993; 139:2585-2590.

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
    Turneriella parva (Hovind-Hougen et al. 1982) Levett et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Leptospiraceae Hovind-Hougen 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Levett PN, Morey RE, Galloway R, Steigerwalt AG, Ellis WA. Reclassification of Leptospira parva Hovind-Hougen et al. 1982 as Turneriella parva gen. nov., comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1497-1499.

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