Genus Zemynaea

Name: Zemynaea Bowman 2023

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: Ze.my.nae’a. N.L. fem. n. Zemynaea, named after Žemyna, the female Lithuanian deity that personifies the Earth and fertility

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Zemynae-), ze-my-NA͡E-a

Type species: Zemynaea arenosa (Raths et al. 2020) Bowman 2023

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Bowman JP. Genome-wide and constrained ordination-based analyses of EC code data support reclassification of the species of Massilia La Scola et al. 2000 into Telluria Bowman et al. 1993, Mokoshia gen. nov. and Zemynaea gen. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5991. 🇦🇺

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 73, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:6094.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Massilia La Scola et al. 2000. Publication: Raths R, Peta V, Bucking H. Massilia arenosa sp. nov., isolated from the soil of a cultivated maize field. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3912-3920. 🇺🇸
  • 😡 This taxon name is a homonym of "Candidatus Zemynaea" Ji et al. 2021.
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.08868 (N = 2).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: ATCC: 1; LMG: 1; NRRL: 1.

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
    Zemynaea arenosa (Raths et al. 2020) Bowman 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Oxalobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006

Assigned by: Bowman JP. Genome-wide and constrained ordination-based analyses of EC code data support reclassification of the species of Massilia La Scola et al. 2000 into Telluria Bowman et al. 1993, Mokoshia gen. nov. and Zemynaea gen. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5991. 🇦🇺

Linking: To permanently link to this page, use https://doi.org/10.83108/rn.40043Copy to clipboardLink copied to clipboard

Record number: 40043

• Previous versions:

  • Version	Date	JSON
    1	2026-03-31