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Genus Woodsholea
Name: Woodsholea Abraham et al. 2004
Etymology: Wood.sho’le.a. N.L. fem. n. Woodsholea, named in honour of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts, USA
Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Woodshole-), wood-S͡HO-le-a
Type species: Woodsholea maritima Abraham et al. 2004
Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS
Valid publication:
Abraham WR, Strompl C, Vancanneyt M, Bennasar A, Swings J, Lunsdorf H, Smit J, Moore ER. Woodsholea maritima gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine bacterium with a low diversity of polar lipids. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1227-1234. 
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IJSEM list:
Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 54, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1911-1913.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name
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Notes:
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🧕 Alain et al. (2008) assigned this genus to the family Hyphomonadaceae Lee et al. 2005.
Publication:
Alain K, Tindall BJ, Intertaglia L, Catala P, Lebaron P. Hellea balneolensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a prosthecate alphaproteobacterium from the Mediterranean Sea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:2511-2519. 🇫🇷
- 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.10619 (N = 2).
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: VKM: 1; LMG: 1; DSM: 1.
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🧕 Alain et al. (2008) assigned this genus to the family Hyphomonadaceae Lee et al. 2005.
Publication:
Alain K, Tindall BJ, Intertaglia L, Catala P, Lebaron P. Hellea balneolensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a prosthecate alphaproteobacterium from the Mediterranean Sea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:2511-2519.
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
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status Woodsholea maritima Abraham et al. 2004 validly published under the ICNP correct name
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Parent taxon: Maricaulaceae Kevbrin et al. 2021
Assigned by:
Kevbrin V, Boltyanskaya Y, Koziaeva V, Uzun M, Grouzdev D. Alkalicaulis satelles gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel haloalkaliphile isolated from a laboratory culture cyanobacterium Geitlerinema species and proposals of Maricaulaceae fam. nov., Robiginitomaculaceae fam. nov., Maricaulales ord. nov. and Hyphomonadales ord. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4614. 🇷🇺
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Record number: 516928
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