Name: Apibacter Kwong and Moran 2016

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: A.pi.bac’ter. L. gen. fem. n. apis, bee; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Apibacter, a rod-shaped bacterium first isolated from bees

Gender: masculine (stem: Apibacter-)

Type species: Apibacter adventoris Kwong and Moran 2016

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kwong WK, Moran NA. Apibacter adventoris gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the phylum Bacteroidetes isolated from honey bees. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1323-1329.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2126-2128.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Praet et al. (2016) assigned this genus to the family Flavobacteriaceae Reichenbach 1992. Publication: Praet J, Aerts M, Brandt ED, Meeus I, Smagghe G, Vandamme P. Apibacter mensalis sp. nov.: a rare member of the bumblebee gut microbiota. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1645-1651.
  • 😢 The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. The expression "monophyletic clade" is a pleonasm. Whether taxa can have "members" is debatable. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details. Publication: Göker M. What can genome analysis offer for bacteria? In: Bridge P, Smith D, Stackebrandt E (eds), Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi, CAB International, Wallingford, 2021, p. 255-281.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: LMG: 2; DSM: 2; NCIMB: 1; JCM: 1; NRRL: 1; CGMCC: 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
    Apibacter adventoris Kwong and Moran 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Apibacter mensalis Praet et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Apibacter muscae Park et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Apibacter raozihei Huang et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Weeksellaceae García-López et al. 2020

Assigned by: Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083.

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