Name: Marivirga Nedashkovskaya et al. 2010

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ma.ri.vir.ga. L. neut. n. mare, the sea; L. fem. n. virga, rod; N.L. fem. n. Marivirga, a rod that inhabits marine environments

Gender: feminine (stem: Marivirg-)

Type species: Marivirga tractuosa (Lewin 1969) Nedashkovskaya et al. 2010

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Nedashkovskaya OI, Vancanneyt M, Kim SB, Bae KS. Reclassification of Flexibacter tractuosus (Lewin 1969) Leadbetter 1974 and 'Microscilla sericea' Lewin 1969 in the genus Marivirga gen. nov. as Marivirga tractuosa comb. nov. and Marivirga sericea nom. rev., comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1858-1863.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2511-2512.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Lin et al. 2015 Lin CY, Zhang XY, Liu A, Liu C, Song XY, Su HN, Qin QL, Xie BB, Zhang YZ. Marivirga atlantica sp. nov., isolated from seawater and emended description of the genus Marivirga. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1515-1519. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 65, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:2343-2344.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Marivirgaceae García-López et al. 2020. Publication: Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083.
  • 🧕 Nedashkovskaya et al. (2010) assigned this genus to the family "Flammeovirgaceae". Publication: Nedashkovskaya OI, Vancanneyt M, Kim SB, Bae KS. Reclassification of Flexibacter tractuosus (Lewin 1969) Leadbetter 1974 and 'Microscilla sericea' Lewin 1969 in the genus Marivirga gen. nov. as Marivirga tractuosa comb. nov. and Marivirga sericea nom. rev., comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1858-1863.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Flexibacter Soriano 1945 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Leadbetter ER. Genus II. Flexibacter Soriano 1945, 92, Lewin 1969, 192 emend. mut. char. In: Buchanan RE, N.e G (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 8th ed., The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1974, p. 105-107.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Microscilla Pringsheim 1951 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Lewin RA. A classification of flexibacteria. J Gen Microbiol 1969; 58:189-206.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Marivirgia".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: NBRC: 3; NCIMB: 3; DSM: 2; LMG: 2; JCM: 2; ATCC: 2; IFO: 1; CGMCC: 1; KCTC: 1; VKM: 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: 6

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Marivirga atlantica Lin et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Marivirga aurantiaca Zhang et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Marivirga harenae Muramatsu et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Marivirga lumbricoides Xu et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Marivirga sericea (ex Lewin 1969) Nedashkovskaya et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Marivirga tractuosa (Lewin 1969) Nedashkovskaya et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Marivirgaceae García-López et al. 2020

Assigned by: Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083.

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