Name: Elizabethkingia Kim et al. 2005

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: E.liz.a.beth.kin’gi.a. N.L. fem. n. Elizabethkingia, in honour of Elizabeth O. King, who first described bacteria associated with infant meningitis, notably [Flavobacterium] meningosepticum in 1959

Gender: feminine (stem: Elizabethkingi-)

Type species: Elizabethkingia meningoseptica (King 1959) Kim et al. 2005

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kim KK, Kim MK, Lim JH, Park HY, Lee ST. Transfer of Chryseobacterium meningosepticum and Chryseobacterium miricola to Elizabethkingia gen. nov. as Elizabethkingia meningoseptica comb. nov. and Elizabethkingia miricola comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1287-1293.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 55, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1747-1749.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Nicholson et al. 2018 Nicholson AC, Gulvik CA, Whitney AM, Humrighouse BW, Graziano J, Emery B, Bell M, Loparev V, Juieng P, Gartin J, et al. Revisiting the taxonomy of the genus Elizabethkingia using whole-genome sequencing, optical mapping, and MALDI-TOF, along with proposal of three novel Elizabethkingia species: Elizabethkingia bruuniana sp. nov., Elizabethkingia ursingii sp. nov., and Elizabethkingia occulta sp. nov. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2018; 111:55-72. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 28. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:2137-2138.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 3 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Kim et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Flavobacteriaceae Reichenbach 1992. Publication: Kim KK, Kim MK, Lim JH, Park HY, Lee ST. Transfer of Chryseobacterium meningosepticum and Chryseobacterium miricola to Elizabethkingia gen. nov. as Elizabethkingia meningoseptica comb. nov. and Elizabethkingia miricola comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1287-1293.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Chryseobacterium Vandamme et al. 1994. Publication: Vandamme P, Bernardet JF, Segers P, Kersters K, Holmes B. New perspectives in the classification of the flavobacteria: description of Chryseobacterium gen. nov., Bergeyella gen. nov., and Empedobacter nom. rev. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1994; 44:827-831.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Flavobacterium Bergey et al. 1923 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: King EO. Studies on a group of previously unclassified bacteria associated with meningitis in infants. Am J Clin Pathol 1959; 31:241-247.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Elisabethkingia"; "Elizabethkinga"; "Elizabethkiniga"; "Ellzabethkiniga"; "Etizabethkiniga".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Kaempfer et al. (2015). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: CCUG: 5; CIP: 5; JCM: 3; DSM: 3; NCTC: 2; CCM: 2; ATCC: 1; KCCM: 1; NBRC: 1; IFO: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 7
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 8
Total number of child taxa: 8

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Elizabethkingia anophelis Kämpfer et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Elizabethkingia argenteiflava Hwang et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Elizabethkingia bruuniana Nicholson et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Elizabethkingia endophytica Kämpfer et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Elizabethkingia meningoseptica (King 1959) Kim et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Elizabethkingia miricola (Li et al. 2004) Kim et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Elizabethkingia occulta Nicholson et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Elizabethkingia ursingii Nicholson et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Weeksellaceae 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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