Name: Slackia Wade et al. 1999
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
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
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
Name | Nomenclatural status | Taxonomic status |
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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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Record number: 516610