Genus Bombiscardovia

Name: Bombiscardovia Killer et al. 2014

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: Bom.bi.scar.do’vi.a. L. masc. n. bombus, a scientific generic name which encompasses the bumblebees; N.L. fem. n. Scardovia, a bacterial generic name to honour Vittorio Scardovi, an Italian microbiologist; N.L. fem. n. Bombiscardovia, organism related to the genus Scardovia isolated from the digestive tract of bumblebees (Bombus lapidarius)

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Bombiscardovi-), bom-bi-skar-DO-wi-a

Type species: Bombiscardovia coagulans Killer et al. 2014

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Killer J, Kopecny J, Mrazek J, Havlik J, Koppova I, Benada O, Rada V, Kofronova O. Bombiscardovia coagulans gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Bifidobacteriaceae isolated from the digestive tract of bumblebees. Syst Appl Microbiol 2010; 33:359-366. 🇨🇿

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 159. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2927-2929.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Mattarelli P, Felis GE, Pot B, Holzapfel WH, Franz CMAP. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Bifidobacterium, Lactobacillus and related organisms Minutes of the closed meeting by videoconference, 14 and 21 February 2024. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2026; 76:7221. 🇮🇹
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 3; JCM: 2; CCM: 1; ATCC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Bombiscardovia apis Kawasaki et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Bombiscardovia coagulans Killer et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Bombiscardovia nodaiensis Kawasaki et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Bifidobacteriaceae Stackebrandt et al. 1997

Assigned by: Killer J, Kopecny J, Mrazek J, Havlik J, Koppova I, Benada O, Rada V, Kofronova O. Bombiscardovia coagulans gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Bifidobacteriaceae isolated from the digestive tract of bumblebees. Syst Appl Microbiol 2010; 33:359-366. 🇨🇿

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