Name: Ammoniphilus Zaitsev et al. 1998

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Am.mo.ni.phi.lus. N.L. neut. n. ammonium, ammonia (NH3); N.L. adj. philus -a -um, friend, loving; from Gr. adj. philos -ê -on, loving; N.L. masc. n. Ammoniphilus, ammonia lover

Gender: masculine (stem: Ammoniphil-)

Type species: Ammoniphilus oxalaticus Zaitsev et al. 1998

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Zaitsev GM, Tsitko IV, Rainey FA, Trotsenko YA, Uotila JS, Stackebrandt E, Salkinoja-Salonen MS. New aerobic ammonium-dependent obligately oxalotrophic bacteria: description of Ammoniphilus oxalaticus gen. nov., sp. nov. and Ammoniphilus oxalivorans gen. nov., sp. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:151-163.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 48, part 1 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:629.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Li et al. (2024) assigned this genus to the family Oxalophagaceae Li et al. 2024. Publication: Li Y, Zhang D, Bo D, Peng D, Sun M, Zheng J. A taxonomic note on the order Caryophanales: description of 12 novel families and emended description of 21 families. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6539.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Ammoniphi".
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 3; ATCC: 2; CIP: 2; BCRC: 1.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1". — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Ammoniphilus oxalaticus Zaitsev et al. 1998	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Ammoniphilus oxalivorans Zaitsev et al. 1998	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Ammoniphilus resinae Lin et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Paenibacillaceae De Vos et al. 2010

Assigned by: De Vos P, Ludwig W, Schleifer K-H, Whitman WB. Family IV. Paenibacillaceae fam. nov. In: De Vos P, Garrity GM, Jones D, Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Rainey FA, K.-H. S, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 3 (The Firmicutes), Springer, New York, 2009, p. 269.

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