Name: Slackia Wade et al. 1999

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Slack’i.a. N.L. fem. n. Slackia, named to honour Geoffrey Slack, distinguished British microbiologist and dental researcher

Gender: feminine (stem: Slacki-)

Type species: Slackia exigua (Poco et al. 1996) Wade et al. 1999

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Wade WG, Downes J, Dymock D, Hiom SJ, Weightman AJ, Dewhirst FE, Paster BJ, Tzellas N, Coleman B. The family Coriobacteriaceae: reclassification of Eubacterium exiguum (Poco et al. 1996) and Peptostreptococcus heliotrinreducens (Lanigan 1976) as Slackia exigua gen. nov., comb. nov. and Slackia heliotrinireducens gen. nov., comb. nov., and Eubacterium lentum (Prevot 1938) as Eggerthella lenta gen. nov., comb. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:595-600.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 49, part 2 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:937-939.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Nagai et al. 2010 Nagai F, Watanabe Y, Morotomi M. Slackia piriformis sp. nov. and Collinsella tanakaei sp. nov., new members of the family Coriobacteriaceae, isolated from human faeces. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2639-2646. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:221-222.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Zhi et al. (2009) assigned this genus to the family Coriobacteriaceae Stackebrandt et al. 1997. Publication: Zhi XY, Li WJ, Stackebrandt E. An update of the structure and 16S rRNA gene sequence-based definition of higher ranks of the class Actinobacteria, with the proposal of two new suborders and four new families and emended descriptions of the existing higher taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:589-608.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Eubacterium Prévot 1938 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Poco SEJ, Nakazawa F, Ikeda T, Sato M, Sato T, Hoshino E. Eubacterium exiguum sp. nov., isolated from human oral lesions. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1996; 46:1120-1124.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Slacia"; "Slackla"; "Slakia".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 7; JCM: 7; CCUG: 5; ATCC: 3; CIP: 2; NCTC: 2.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 6
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 6
Total number of child taxa: 7

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Slackia equolifaciens Jin et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Slackia exigua (Poco et al. 1996) Wade et al. 1999	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Slackia faecicanis Lawson et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Slackia heliotrinireducens corrig. (Lanigan 1983) Wade et al. 1999	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Slackia heliotrinreducens (Lanigan 1983) Wade et al. 1999	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    Slackia isoflavoniconvertens Matthies et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Slackia piriformis Nagai et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Eggerthellaceae Gupta et al. 2013

Assigned by: Gupta RS. Eggerthellaceae. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2021, p. 1-11.

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