Proposal of Allomuricauda gen. nov. and Allofranklinella gen. nov. as replacement names for the illegitimate prokaryotic generic names Muricauda and Franklinella, respectively

Umakant Bhoopati Deshmukh; Aharon Oren

doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.006023

Proposal of Allomuricauda gen. nov. and Allofranklinella gen. nov. as replacement names for the illegitimate prokaryotic generic names Muricauda and Franklinella, respectively

Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2023 Sep;73(9). doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.006023.

Authors

Umakant Bhoopati Deshmukh¹, Aharon Oren²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Botany, Institution of Higher Learning, Research and Specialized Studies Centre, Janata Mahavidyalaya, Chandrapur 442 401, Maharashtra, India.
² Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, The Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmund J. Safra Campus, Jerusalem 9190401, Israel.

PMID: 37747448
DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.006023

Abstract

The prokaryotic generic names Muricauda Bruns et al. 2001 and Franklinella Bernard et al. 2022 are illegitimate because they are later homonyms of the genus names Muricauda Small 1903 (synonym of Arisaema; Tracheophyta - Liliopsida - Araceae) and Franklinella Stewart and Hendrix 1945 (a Devonian ostracod genus) and Franklinella Lenz 1973 (a Devonian brachiopod genus), respectively (Principle 2 and Rule 51b(4) of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes). We therefore propose the replacement generic names Allomuricauda and Allofranklinella, with type species Allomuricauda ruestringensis and Allofrankinella schreckenbergeri, respectively.

Keywords: Allofranklinella; Allomuricauda; Franklinella; Muricauda; illegitimate names.

MeSH terms

Bacterial Typing Techniques
Base Composition
DNA, Bacterial / genetics
Fatty Acids* / chemistry
Phylogeny
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / genetics
Sequence Analysis, DNA

Substances

RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
DNA, Bacterial
Fatty Acids