Genus Aquabacterium

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. n. bakterion, rod; N.L. neut. n. Aquabacterium, a rod-shaped bacterium, isolated from drinking water biofilms

Gender: neuter

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

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:
- This taxon name is occasionally used in plural form as: "Aquabacteria".

Subdivision:

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

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Aquabacterium citratiphilum Kalmbach et al. 1999	validly published	correct name
Aquabacterium commune Kalmbach et al. 1999	validly published	correct name
Aquabacterium fontiphilum Lin et al. 2009	validly published	correct name
Aquabacterium lacunae Chen et al. 2020	validly published	correct name
Aquabacterium limnoticum Chen et al. 2012	validly published	correct name
Aquabacterium olei Pham et al. 2015	validly published	correct name
Aquabacterium parvum Kalmbach et al. 1999	validly published	correct name
Aquabacterium pictum Hirose et al. 2020	validly published	correct name
Aquabacterium tepidiphilum Khan et al. 2019	validly published	correct name

Parent taxon: Comamonadaceae Willems et al. 1991

Assigned by: 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.

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