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Genus Agathobacter
Name: Agathobacter Rosero et al. 2016
Etymology: A.ga.tho.bac’ter. Gr. masc. adj. agathos, good; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Agathobacter, beneficial bacterium
Gender: masculine (stem: Agathobacter-)
Type species: Agathobacter rectalis (Hauduroy et al. 1937) Rosero et al. 2016
Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS
Valid publication:
Rosero JA, Killer J, Sechovcova H, Mrazek J, Benada O, Fliegerova K, Havlik J, Kopecny J. Reclassification of Eubacterium rectale (Hauduroy et al. 1937) Prevot 1938 in a new genus Agathobacter gen. nov. as Agathobacter rectalis comb. nov., and description of Agathobacter ruminis sp. nov., isolated from the rumen contents of sheep and cows. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:768-773. 
IJSEM list:
Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1916-1919.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name
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Notes:
- 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Bacteroides Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Hauduroy P, Ehringer G, Urbain A, Guillot G, Magrou J. Dictionnaire des bactéries pathogènes. Masson and Co., Paris, 1937.
- 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Eubacterium Prévot 1938 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Prévot AR. Études de systématique bactérienne. Annales de l'Institut Pasteur (Paris) 1938; 60:285-307.
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Agatobacter"; "Agthobacter".
- 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.06568 (N = 17).
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 4; NCIMB: 2; LMG: 1; ATCC: 1.
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 3
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status "Agathobacter faecis" (Duncan et al. 2006) Goris et al. 2021 not validly published synonym Agathobacter rectalis (Hauduroy et al. 1937) Rosero et al. 2016 validly published under the ICNP correct name Agathobacter ruminis Rosero et al. 2016 validly published under the ICNP correct name
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Parent taxon: Lachnospiraceae Rainey 2010
Assigned by:
Rosero JA, Killer J, Sechovcova H, Mrazek J, Benada O, Fliegerova K, Havlik J, Kopecny J. Reclassification of Eubacterium rectale (Hauduroy et al. 1937) Prevot 1938 in a new genus Agathobacter gen. nov. as Agathobacter rectalis comb. nov., and description of Agathobacter ruminis sp. nov., isolated from the rumen contents of sheep and cows. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:768-773.
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Record number: 518887
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