Name: Hirschia Schlesner et al. 1990

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Hirsch’i.a. N.L. fem. n. Hirschia, honoring Peter Hirsch, a German microbiologist, who is an expert on budding and hyphal bacteria

Gender: feminine (stem: Hirschi-)

Type species: Hirschia baltica Schlesner et al. 1990

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Schlesner H, Bartels C, Sittig M, Dorsch M, Stackebrandt E. Taxonomic and phylogenetic studies on a new taxon of budding, hyphal Proteobacteria, Hirschia baltica gen. nov., sp. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1990; 40:443-451.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Park and Yoon 2013 Park S, Yoon JH. Hirschia litorea sp. nov., isolated from seashore sediment, and emended description of the genus Hirschia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1684-1689. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2755-2756.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the family "Rhodobacteraceae". 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.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Hirschla"; "Hirshia".
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.02774 (N = 2).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 2; KCTC: 1; ATCC: 1; CCUG: 1; JCM: 1.
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "HRSH" 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: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Hirschia baltica Schlesner et al. 1990	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Hirschia litorea Park and Yoon 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Hirschia maritima Kang and Lee 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Hyphomonadaceae Lee et al. 2005

Assigned by: Lee KB, Liu CT, Anzai Y, Kim H, Aono T, Oyaizu H. The hierarchical system of the 'Alphaproteobacteria': description of Hyphomonadaceae fam. nov., Xanthobacteraceae fam. nov. and Erythrobacteraceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1907-1919.

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