Name: Aquisalimonas Márquez et al. 2007

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: A.qui.sa.li.mo’nas. L. fem. n. aqua, water; L. masc. n. sal (gen. salis), salt; L. fem. n. monas, a unit, a monad; N.L. fem. n. Aquisalimonas, a bacterium living in salted water

Gender: feminine (stem: Aquisalimonad-)

Type species: Aquisalimonas asiatica Márquez et al. 2007

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Marquez MC, Carrasco IJ, Xue Y, Ma Y, Cowan DA, Jones BE, Grant WD, Ventosa A. Aquisalimonas asiatica gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from an alkaline, saline lake in Inner Mongolia, China. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1137-1142.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1675-1676.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Aquisalimonadaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Aquisalimonadaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Aquasalimonas".
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.04061 (N = 3).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: CECT: 2; CCM: 2; DSM: 2; LMG: 1; CGMCC: 1; CCTCC: 1.

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
    Aquisalimonas asiatica Márquez et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Aquisalimonas halophila Zhang et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Aquisalimonas lutea Infante-Domínguez et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Ectothiorhodospiraceae Imhoff 1984

Assigned by: Marquez MC, Carrasco IJ, Xue Y, Ma Y, Cowan DA, Jones BE, Grant WD, Ventosa A. Aquisalimonas asiatica gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from an alkaline, saline lake in Inner Mongolia, China. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1137-1142.

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