Name: Billgrantia de la Haba et al. 2024

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Bill.grant’i.a. N.L. fem. n. Billgrantia, named after the microbiologist William [Bill] D. Grant for his great contribution to the study of halophilic microorganisms

Gender: feminine (stem: Billgranti-)

Type species: Billgrantia desiderata (Berendes et al. 1997) de la Haba et al. 2024

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: de la Haba RR, Arahal DR, Sanchez-Porro C, Chuvochina M, Wittouck S, Hugenholtz P, Ventosa A. A long-awaited taxogenomic investigation of the family Halomonadaceae. Front Microbiol 2023; 14:1293707.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 216. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6229.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Halomonas Vreeland et al. 1980. Publication: Wu G, Wu XQ, Wang YN, Chi CQ, Tang YQ, Kida K, Wu XL, Luan ZK. Halomonas daqingensis sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from an oilfield soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:2859-2865.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Halomonas Vreeland et al. 1980. Publication: Berendes F, Gottschalk G, Heine-Dobbernack E, Moore ERB, Tindall BJ. Halomonas desiderata sp. nov., a new alkaliphilic, halotolerant and denitrifying bacterium isolated from a municipal sewage works. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 1996; 19:158-167.
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Li et al. (2020). 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: KCTC: 13; MCCC: 7; DSM: 5; CGMCC: 3; CIP: 2; LMG: 2; VKM: 2; CECT: 1; CICC: 1; NCCB: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 18
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 18
Total number of child taxa: 19

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Billgrantia aerodenitrificans de la Haba et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Billgrantia antri (So et al. 2022) de la Haba et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Billgrantia azerbaijanica (Kazemi et al. 2021) de la Haba et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Billgrantia bachuensis (Xiao et al. 2021) de la Haba et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Billgrantia campisalis (Mormile et al. 2000) de la Haba et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Billgrantia chromatireducens" (Shapovalova et al. 2009) De la Haba et al. 2023	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    Billgrantia desiderata (Berendes et al. 1997) de la Haba et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Billgrantia diversa (Wang et al. 2021) de la Haba et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Billgrantia endophytica (Chen et al. 2018) de la Haba et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Billgrantia ethanolica de la Haba et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Billgrantia gudaonensis (Wang et al. 2007) de la Haba et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Billgrantia kenyensis (Boltyanskaya et al. 2008) de la Haba et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Billgrantia lactosivorans (Ming et al. 2020) de la Haba et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Billgrantia montanilacus (Lu et al. 2020) de la Haba et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Billgrantia pellis (Li et al. 2020) de la Haba et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Billgrantia saliphila (Gan et al. 2018) de la Haba et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Billgrantia sulfidoxydans de la Haba et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Billgrantia tianxiuensis de la Haba et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Billgrantia zhangzhouensis de la Haba et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Halomonadaceae Franzmann et al. 1989

Assigned by: de la Haba RR, Arahal DR, Sanchez-Porro C, Chuvochina M, Wittouck S, Hugenholtz P, Ventosa A. A long-awaited taxogenomic investigation of the family Halomonadaceae. Front Microbiol 2023; 14:1293707.

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