Name: Piscirickettsia Fryer et al. 1992

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: L. gen. masc. n. piscis, a fish; N.L. fem. n. Rickettsia, a generic name; N.L. fem. n. Piscirickettsia, rickettsia-like organism affecting fish

Gender: feminine (stem: Piscirickettsi-)

Type species: Piscirickettsia salmonis Fryer et al. 1992

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Fryer JL, Lannan CN, Giovannoni SJ, Wood ND. Piscirickettsia salmonis gen. nov., sp. nov., the causative agent of an epizootic disease in salmonid fishes. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1992; 42:120-126.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 42, part 1 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1992; 42:328-329.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Piscirickettsiaceae Fryer and Lannan 2005. Publication: Fryer JL, Lannan CN. Family II. Piscirickettsiaceae 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. 180.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order Piscirickettsiales Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the order Piscirickettsiales Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Piscinckettsia"; "Piscirickettsja"; "Piscirikettsia".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: ATCC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Piscirickettsia litoralis" Wan et al. 2016	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    Piscirickettsia salmonis Fryer et al. 1992	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Piscirickettsiaceae Fryer and Lannan 2005

Assigned by: Fryer JL, Lannan CN. Family II. Piscirickettsiaceae 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. 180.

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