Genus Albidovulum

Name: Albidovulum Albuquerque et al. 2003

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Al.bid.o’vu.lum. L. masc. adj. albidus, whitish, white; L. neut. n. ovum, egg; N.L. neut. dim. n. ovulum, small egg; N.L. neut. dim. n. Albidovulum, small whitish egg

Gender, pronunciation: neuter (stem: Albidovul-), al-bid-O-wu-lum

Type species: Albidovulum inexpectatum Albuquerque et al. 2003

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Albuquerque L, Santos J, Travassos P, Nobre MF, Rainey FA, Wait R, Empadinhas N, Silva MT, da Costa MS. Albidovulum inexpectatum gen. nov., sp. nov., a nonphotosynthetic and slightly thermophilic bacterium from a marine hot spring that is very closely related to members of the photosynthetic genus Rhodovulum. Appl Environ Microbiol 2002; 68:4266-4273. 🇵🇹

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 89. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1-2.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Defluviimonas Foesel et al. 2013	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Emendations:
- He et al. 2025 He W, Zhang DF, Li XJ, Wang HC, Wang LQ, Yuan Y. Description of Albidovulum litorale sp. nov., Albidovulum marisflavi sp. nov., Albidovulum salinarum sp. nov., and Albidovulum sediminicola sp. nov., and proposal for reclassification of the genus Defluviimonas as a later heterotypic synonym of Albidovulum. Syst Appl Microbiol 2025; 48:126576. 🇨🇳 Oren A, Göker M. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 42. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6793.
  Notes:
  - ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 8 new species in the genus.

Notes:
- 🧕 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. 🇺🇸
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: MCCC: 6; JCM: 5; GDMCC: 4; DSM: 3; ATCC: 2; KCTC: 2; LMG: 1; KACC: 1; CGMCC: 1; CECT: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 9
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 10
Total number of child taxa: 10

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Albidovulum aestuarii (Math et al. 2013) He et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Albidovulum aquaemixtae (Jung et al. 2014) He et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Albidovulum denitrificans (Foesel et al. 2013) He et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Albidovulum inexpectatum Albuquerque et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Albidovulum litorale He et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Albidovulum marisflavi He et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Albidovulum salinarum He et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Albidovulum sediminicola He et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Albidovulum sediminis (Liu et al. 2023) He et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Albidovulum xiamenense Yin et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	synonym

Parent taxon: Paracoccaceae Liang et al. 2022

Assigned by: Goker M. Filling the gaps: missing taxon names at the ranks of class, order and family. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5638. 🇩🇪

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Genus Albidovulum