Genus Zhongshania

Name: Zhongshania Li et al. 2011

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: Zhong.sha’ni.a. N.L. fem. n. Zhongshania, named after the Chinese Antarctic Zhongshan Station

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Zhongshani-), z͡hon͡g-S͡HA-ni-a

Type species: Zhongshania antarctica Li et al. 2011

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Li HJ, Zhang XY, Chen CX, Zhang YJ, Gao ZM, Yu Y, Chen XL, Chen B, Zhang YZ. Zhongshania antarctica gen. nov., sp. nov. and Zhongshania guokunii sp. nov., gammaproteobacteria respectively isolated from coastal attached (fast) ice and surface seawater of the Antarctic. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:2052-2057. 🇨🇳

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 61, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:2797-2798.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Marortus Yu et al. 2019	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the class Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005. Publication: Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO. The SILVA and “all-species living tree project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; 42(D1):D643-D648. 🇩🇪
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Zhingshania"; "Zhonshania".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: KACC: 4; KCTC: 4; JCM: 3; CCTCC: 2; KCCM: 2; MCCC: 2; NBRC: 2; DSM: 2.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 8
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 8
Total number of child taxa: 9

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Zhongshania aliphaticivorans Lo et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Zhongshania antarctica Li et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Zhongshania aquatica" Lee et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name
    Zhongshania aquimaris Weerawongwiwat et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Zhongshania arctica Pan et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Zhongshania borealis (Jang et al. 2011) Lo et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Zhongshania guokunii Li et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Zhongshania marina On et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Zhongshania ponticola Park et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Spongiibacteraceae Spring et al. 2015

Assigned by: Spring S, Scheuner C, Goker M, Klenk HP. A taxonomic framework for emerging groups of ecologically important marine gammaproteobacteria based on the reconstruction of evolutionary relationships using genome-scale data. Front Microbiol 2015; 6:281. 🇩🇪

Linking: To permanently link to this page, use https://doi.org/10.83108/rn.518133Copy to clipboardLink copied to clipboard

Record number: 518133