Name: Xylella Wells et al. 1987

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Gr. neut. n. xylon, piece of wood, log, beam; L. fem. dim. n. suff. -ella, diminutive ending; N.L. fem. dim. n. Xylella, a small piece of wood, a small log

Gender: feminine (stem: Xylell-)

Type species: Xylella fastidiosa Wells et al. 1987

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Wells JM, Raju BC, Hung HY, Weisburg WG, Mandelco-Paul L, Brenner DJ. Xylella fastidiosa gen. nov., sp. nov.: gram-negative, xylem-limited, fastidious plant bacteria related to Xanthomonas spp. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1987; 37:136-143.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the family "Xanthomonadaceae". Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166.
  • 🧕 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Xanthomonadaceae Saddler and Bradbury 2005. Publication: Saddler GS, Bradbury JF. Family I. Xanthomonadaceae fam. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part B (The Gammaproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 63.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Xilella"; "Xlella"; "Xyella"; "Xyllela".
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.17004 (N = 1).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 1; JCM: 1; BCRC: 1; ATCC: 1; ICMP: 1; LMG: 1.
  • 😷 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".
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "XYEL" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer. Publication: Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Xylella fastidiosa Wells et al. 1987	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Xylella taiwanensis Su et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Lysobacteraceae Christensen and Cook 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Naushad S, Adeolu M, Wong S, Sohail M, Schellhorn HE, Gupta RS. A phylogenomic and molecular marker based taxonomic framework for the order Xanthomonadales: proposal to transfer the families Algiphilaceae and Solimonadaceae to the order Nevskiales ord. nov. and to create a new family within the order Xanthomonadales, the family Rhodanobacteraceae fam. nov., containing the genus Rhodanobacter and its closest relatives. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2015; 107:467-485.

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