Etymology:Ple.o.mor.pho.mo.na.da’ce.ae.N.L. fem. n.Pleomorphomonas, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff.-aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n.Pleomorphomonadaceae, the Pleomorphomonas family
Effective publication:
Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468. 🇩🇪
IJSEM list:
Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 194. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4043-4049.
Nomenclatural status:
validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status:
correct name
Notes:
🧒 Proença et al. (2022) assigned the genus Faunimonas Proença et al. 2022 to this family.Publication:
Proenca DN, Whitman WB, Shapiro N, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Morais PV. Faunimonas pinastri gen. nov., sp. nov., an endophyte from a pine tree of the family Pleomorphomonadaceae, class Alphaproteobacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5623. 🇵🇹
🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Methylocystaceae Bowman 2006.Publication:
Esquivel-Elizondo S, Maldonado J, Krajmalnik-Brown R. Anaerobic carbon monoxide metabolism by Pleomorphomonas carboxyditropha sp. nov., a new mesophilic hydrogenogenic carboxydotroph. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2018; 94:fiy056. 🇺🇸
🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 6; KCTC: 5; JCM: 4; NBRC: 3; KACC: 3; MCCC: 2; ATCC: 2; CGMCC: 1; IAM: 1; VKM: 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: 7 Total number of child taxa: 7