Name: Arsenicicoccus Collins et al. 2004

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ar.se.ni.ci.coc’cus. N.L. neut. adj. arsenicum, arsenic; N.L. masc. n. coccus, berry; N.L. masc. n. Arsenicicoccus, arsenic coccus, because the type species was recovered from an arsenic enrichment

Gender, pronunciation: masculine (stem: Arsenicicocc-), ar-se-ni-ki-KOK-kus

Type species: Arsenicicoccus bolidensis Collins et al. 2004

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Collins MD, Routh J, Saraswathy A, Lawson PA, Schumann P, Welinder-Olsson C, Falsen E. Arsenicicoccus bolidensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel actinomycete isolated from contaminated lake sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:605-608.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 54, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1007-1009.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Arsenicicoccaceae Salam et al. 2020. Publication: Salam N, Jiao JY, Zhang XT, Li WJ. Update on the classification of higher ranks in the phylum Actinobacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:1331-1355.
  • 🧕 Salam et al. (2020) assigned this genus to the family Arsenicicoccaceae Salam et al. 2020. Publication: Salam N, Jiao JY, Zhang XT, Li WJ. Update on the classification of higher ranks in the phylum Actinobacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:1331-1355.
  • 🧕 Zhi et al. (2009) assigned this genus to the family Intrasporangiaceae Rainey et al. 1997. Publication: Zhi XY, Li WJ, Stackebrandt E. An update of the structure and 16S rRNA gene sequence-based definition of higher ranks of the class Actinobacteria, with the proposal of two new suborders and four new families and emended descriptions of the existing higher taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:589-608.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Arseniciccoccus"; "Arsenicoccus"; "Arsenicococcus".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 3; CCUG: 2; JCM: 2; CCOS: 1; NCCP: 1; NBRC: 1.
  • 🧍 The noun coccus is a N.L. masc. n., not a L. masc. n. as cited in the paper by Collins et al. 2004. Publication: Euzeby JP. List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:590-592.

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
    Arsenicicoccus bolidensis Collins et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Arsenicicoccus cauae Kweon et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Arsenicicoccus dermatophilus Gobeli et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Arsenicicoccus piscis Hamada et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Dermatophilaceae Austwick 1958 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007.

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