Name: Anaerobranca Engle et al. 1995

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: An.ae.ro.bran’ca. Gr. pref. an-, not (here: inseparable prefix); Gr. masc. n. aêr (gen. aeros), air; L. fem. n. branca, claw, paw, the root of the English word branch, an arm-like part diverging from a main axis; N.L. fem. n. Anaerobranca, referring to the branched cell shape of the obligately anaerobic bacterium

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Anaerobranc-), an-a͡e-ro-BRAN-ka

Type species: Anaerobranca horikoshii Engle et al. 1995

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Engle M, Li Y, Woese C, Wiegel J. Isolation and characterization of a novel alkalitolerant thermophile, Anaerobranca horikoshii gen. nov., sp. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1995; 45:454-461.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 45, part 3 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1995; 45:881.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 De Vos et al. (2009) assigned this genus to the order Clostridiales Prévot 1953 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Ludwig W, Schleifer K-H, Whitman WB. Class I. Bacilli class 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. 19-20.
  • 🧕 Kevbrin and Boltyanskaya (2024) assigned this genus to the family Proteinivoracaceae corrig. Kevbrin et al. 2014. Publication: Kevbrin VV, Boltyanskaya YV. Proteinivoracaceae Kevbrin et al. 2013, VL155. In: Whitman WB, Rainey FA, Kämpfer P, Trujillo ME, DeVos P, Hedlund B, Dedysh S (eds), Bergey's Manual of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2024, p. 1-5.
  • 🧕 Tindall (2019) assigned this genus to the order Eubacteriales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Tindall BJ. The names Hungateiclostridium Zhang et al. 2018, Hungateiclostridium thermocellum (Viljoen et al. 1926) Zhang et al. 2018, Hungateiclostridium cellulolyticum (Patel et al. 1980) Zhang et al. 2018, Hungateiclostridium aldrichii (Yang et al. 1990) Zhang et al. 2018, Hungateiclostridium alkalicellulosi (Zhilina et al. 2006) Zhang et al. 2018, Hungateiclostridium clariflavum (Shiratori et al. 2009) Zhang et al. 2018, Hungateiclostridium straminisolvens (Kato et al. 2004) Zhang et al. 2018 and Hungateiclostridium saccincola (Koeck et al. 2016) Zhang et al. 2018 contravene Rule 51b of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes and require replacement names in the genus Acetivibrio Patel et al. 1980. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:3927-3932.
  • 📧 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: 4; ATCC: 2; UNIQEM: 1; VKM: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 4
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 4
Total number of child taxa: 4

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Anaerobranca californiensis Gorlenko et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Anaerobranca gottschalkii Prowe and Antranikian 2001	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Anaerobranca horikoshii Engle et al. 1995	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Anaerobranca zavarzinii Kevbrin et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Syntrophomonadaceae Zhao et al. 1993

Assigned by: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166.

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