Name: Ahrensia Uchino et al. 1999

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ahrens’i.a. N.L. fem. n. Ahrensia, named after R. Ahrens, a German microbiologist, who contributed to the taxonomy of marine species of Agrobacterium

Gender: feminine (stem: Ahrensi-)

Type species: Ahrensia kielensis corrig. (ex Ahrens 1968) Uchino et al. 1999

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Uchino Y, Hirata A, Yokota A, Sugiyama J. Reclassification of marine Agrobacterium species: Proposals of Stappia stellulata gen. nov., comb. nov., Stappia aggregata sp. nov., nom. rev., Ruegeria atlantica gen. nov., comb. nov., Ruegeria gelatinovora comb. nov., Ruegeria algicola comb. nov., and Ahrensia kieliense gen. nov., sp. nov., nom. rev. J Gen Appl Microbiol 1998; 44:201-210.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 68. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:1-3.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Liu et al. 2016 Liu J, Wang Y, Liu Y, Zhang XH. Ahrensia marina sp. nov., a dimethylsulfoniopropionate-cleaving bacterium isolated from seawater, and emended descriptions of the genus Ahrensia and Ahrensia kielensis. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:874-880. 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.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Ahrensiaceae Hördt et al. 2020. 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.
  • 🧕 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Rhodobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family I. Rhodobacteraceae 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 C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 161.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Ahreusia".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 3; DSM: 3; IFO: 2; CIP: 2; NCIMB: 2; ATCC: 2; NBRC: 2; MCCC: 1.
  • 🧍 Yilmaz et al. (2014) realized that this genus does not phylogenetically belong to Rhodobacteraceae. Publication: Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO. The SILVA and “all-species living tree project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; 42(D1):D643-D648.

Subdivision:

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

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Ahrensia kielensis corrig. (ex Ahrens 1968) Uchino et al. 1999	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Ahrensia kieliense (ex Ahrens 1968) Uchino et al. 1999	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    Ahrensia marina Liu et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Ahrensiaceae Hördt et al. 2020

Assigned by: 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.

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