Name: Bosea Das et al. 1996

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Bos’e.a. N.L. fem. n. Bosea, named in honour of J. C. Bose, the founder of the Bose Institute, where the type species Bosea thiooxidans was isolated

Gender: feminine (stem: Bose-)

Type species: Bosea thiooxidans Das et al. 1996

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Das SK, Mishra AK, Tindall BJ, Rainey FA, Stackebrandt E. Oxidation of thiosulfate by a new bacterium, Bosea thiooxidans (strain BI-42) gen. nov., sp. nov.: analysis of phylogeny based on chemotaxonomy and 16S ribosomal DNA sequencing. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1996; 46:981-987.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 46, part 4 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:243-244.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • La Scola et al. 2003 La Scola B, Mallet MN, Grimont PA, Raoult D. Bosea eneae sp. nov., Bosea massiliensis sp. nov. and Bosea vestrisii sp. nov., isolated from hospital water supplies, and emendation of the genus Bosea (Das et al. 1996). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:15-20. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 53, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:629-630.
    Notes:
    • Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 3 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the family Boseaceae Hördt et al. 2020. Publication: Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468.
  • Brenner et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Bradyrhizobiaceae Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family VII. Bradyrhizobiaceae fam. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria) part C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 438.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Boseu".
  • The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: de Lajudie PM, Young JPW. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of rhizobia and agrobacteria Minutes of the closed meeting, Granada, 4 September 2017. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:3363-3368.
  • This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: de Lajudie P, Young JPW. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Rhizobia and Agrobacteria Minutes of the closed meeting by videoconference, 17 July 2019. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3563-3571.
  • This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: de Lajudie P, Martinez-Romero E. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Agrobacterium and Rhizobium Minutes of the meeting, 7 September 2014, Tenerife, Spain. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:516-520.
  • This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: de Lajudie PM, Young JPW. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee for the Taxonomy of Rhizobium and Agrobacterium Minutes of the meeting, Budapest, 25 August 2016. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2485-2494.
  • Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Sazanova et al. (2019). 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: DSM: 8; LMG: 7; CCUG: 6; CIP: 4; ATCC: 2; CECT: 1; NRRL: 1.
  • Bosea Das et al. 1996 is a later homonym of a genus name with standing in the botanical (plant) nomenclature: Bosea L. 1753. Principle 2 of the 2008 Code is not retroactive, so the name does not contravene the Code because of this homonymy. — Crook M. Personal communication, 2021-08-19.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 11
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 11
Total number of child taxa: 12

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Bosea caraganae Sazanova et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Bosea eneae La Scola et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Bosea lathyri De Meyer and Willems 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Bosea lupini De Meyer and Willems 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Bosea massiliensis La Scola et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Bosea minatitlanensis Ouattara et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Bosea psychrotolerans Albert et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Bosea robiniae De Meyer and Willems 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Bosea spartocytisi" Pulido-Suárez et al. 2022	not validly published
    Bosea thiooxidans Das et al. 1996	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Bosea vaviloviae Safronova et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Bosea vestrisii La Scola et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Boseaceae Hördt et al. 2020

Assigned by: Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468.

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