Name: Aquabacterium Kalmbach et al. 1999

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: A.qua.bac.te’ri.um. L. fem. n. aqua, water; Gr. neut. dim. n. baktêrion, rod; N.L. neut. n. Aquabacterium, a rod-shaped bacterium, isolated from drinking water biofilms [probably better: Aquibacterium]

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): neuter (stem: Aquabacteri-), a-kwa-bak-TE-ri-um

Type species: Aquabacterium commune Kalmbach et al. 1999

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kalmbach S, Manz W, Wecke J, Szewzyk U. Aquabacterium gen. nov., with description of Aquabacterium citratiphilum sp. nov., Aquabacterium parvum sp. nov. and Aquabacterium commune sp. nov., three in situ dominant bacterial species from the Berlin drinking water system. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:769-777. 🇩🇪

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 49, part 2 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:937-939.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Chen et al. 2012 Chen WM, Cho NT, Yang SH, Arun AB, Young CC, Sheu SY. Aquabacterium limnoticum sp. nov., isolated from a freshwater spring. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:698-704. 🇹🇼 Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 62, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1221-1222.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
  • Hirose et al. 2020 Hirose S, Tank M, Hara E, Tamaki H, Mori K, Takaichi S, Haruta S, Hanada S. Aquabacterium pictum sp. nov., the first aerobic bacteriochlorophyll a-containing fresh water bacterium in the genus Aquabacterium of the class Betaproteobacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:596-603. 🇯🇵 Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 70, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:2167-2173.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Comamonadaceae Willems et al. 1991. Publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Class I. Alphaproteobacteria class. 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. 1. 🇺🇸
  • 🧕 Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the order Burkholderiales Garrity et al. 2006. 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. 🇩🇪
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Aquabacteriuni". — 🤨 This taxon name is occasionally used in plural form as: "Aquabacteria".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Lee et al. (2024). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 6; KCTC: 5; NBRC: 4; B: 3; ATCC: 3; BCRC: 3; CIP: 3; CCUG: 2; LMG: 2; CCTCC: 2.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 10
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 12
Total number of child taxa: 13

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Aquabacterium citratiphilum Kalmbach et al. 1999	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Aquabacterium commune Kalmbach et al. 1999	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Candidatus Aquabacterium excrementipullorum" Gilroy et al. 2021	not validly published	pro-correct name
    Aquabacterium fontiphilum Lin et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Aquabacterium humicola Lee et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Aquabacterium lacunae Chen et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Aquabacterium limnoticum Chen et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Aquabacterium olei Pham et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Aquabacterium parvum Kalmbach et al. 1999	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Aquabacterium pictum Hirose et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Aquabacterium soli Sun et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Aquabacterium tepidiphilum Khan et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Aquabacterium terrae Dahal et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Sphaerotilaceae Liu et al. 2023

Assigned by: Lu H, Chen L. Ideonella margarita sp. nov., Ideonella lacteola sp. nov., Pseudaquabacterium inlustre sp. nov. and Pseudaquabacterium rugosum sp. nov., isolated from streams in China and re-examining the taxonomic status of all the genera within the family Sphaerotilaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6495. 🇨🇳

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