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

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

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

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Calidifontimicrobium Ding et al. 2019	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Emendations:
  • Liu et al. 2022 Liu Y, Du J, Pei T, Du H, Feng GD, Zhu H. Genome-based taxonomic classification of the closest-to-Comamonadaceae group supports a new family Sphaerotilaceae fam. nov. and taxonomic revisions. Syst Appl Microbiol 2022; 45:126352. Oren A, Göker M. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 37. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5696.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Xie and Yokota (2005) assigned this genus to the family Alcaligenaceae De Ley et al. 1986. 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.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Alcaligenes Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Palleroni NJ, Palleroni AV. Alcaligenes latus, a new species of hydrogen-utilizing bacteria. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1978; 28:416-424.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Azotiydromonas".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Dahal et al. (2021). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: NBRC: 5; LMG: 3; KACC: 3; UCM: 2; ATCC: 2; DSM: 2; IAM: 2; KCTC: 1; CIP: 1; SYSU: 1.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1". — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.

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

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Azohydromonas aeria" Xue et al. 2020	not validly published	preferred name
    Azohydromonas australica Xie and Yokota 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Azohydromonas caseinilytica Dahal et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Azohydromonas lata (Palleroni and Palleroni 1978) Xie and Yokota 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Azohydromonas riparia Nguyen and Kim 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Azohydromonas sediminis (Ding et al. 2019) Liu et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Azohydromonas ureilytica Nguyen and Kim 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

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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