Name: Azohydromonas Xie and Yokota 2005

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: A.zo.hy.dro.mo.nas. N.L. neut. n. azotum, nitrogen; from French masc. n. azote, nitrogen; from Gr. pref. a-, not (inseparable prefix); from Gr. fem. n. zôê, life; from N.Gr. fem. n. azôê, not sustaining life; N.L. pref. azo-, pertaining to nitrogen (in compound words condensed from azotum); Gr. neut. n. hydôr, water; L. fem. n. monas, a unit, monad; N.L. fem. n. Azohydromonas, nitrogen-fixing and hydrogen autotrophic monad

Gender: feminine (stem: Azohydromonad-)

Type species: Azohydromonas lata (Palleroni and Palleroni 1978) Xie and Yokota 2005

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Xie CH, Yokota A. Reclassification of Alcaligenes latus strains IAM 12599T and IAM 12664 and Pseudomonas saccharophila as Azohydromonas lata gen. nov., comb. nov., Azohydromonas australica sp. nov. and Pelomonas saccharophila gen. nov., comb. nov., respectively. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:2419-2425.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 55, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:319-321.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 6
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 6
Total number of child taxa: 7

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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