Name: "Astrobacterium" Potokina et al. 2025

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: As.tro.bac.te’ri.um. Gr. neut. n. astron, star; N.L. neut. n. bacterium, a bacterium; N.L. neut. n. Astrobacterium, star-like rosettes forming bacterium

Gender, pronunciation: neuter (stem: Astrobacteri-), as-tro-bak-TE-ri-um

Type species: "Astrobacterium formosum" Potokina et al. 2025

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Potokina VV, Parshina SN, Merkel AY, Elcheninov AG, Vishnyakova AV, Avtukh AN, Kostrikina NA, Tereshina VM, Litti YV. Astrobacterium formosum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel psychrotolerant rosette-forming bacterium from a laboratory psychrophilic EGSB bioreactor. Syst Appl Microbiol 2025; 48:126640.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Asteribacterium".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: VKM: 1; CGMCC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Astrobacterium formosum" Potokina et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: Nitrobacteraceae corrig. Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Potokina VV, Parshina SN, Merkel AY, Elcheninov AG, Vishnyakova AV, Avtukh AN, Kostrikina NA, Tereshina VM, Litti YV. Astrobacterium formosum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel psychrotolerant rosette-forming bacterium from a laboratory psychrophilic EGSB bioreactor. Syst Appl Microbiol 2025; 48:126640.

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