Name: Chelativorans Doronina et al. 2010

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Che.la.ti’vo.rans. N.L. neut. n. chelatum, a chelate; L. pres. part. vorans, devouring; N.L. masc. n. Chelativorans, a bacterium digesting metal chelates

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Chelativorant-), k^he-la-TI-wo-rans

Type species: Chelativorans multitrophicus Doronina et al. 2010

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Doronina NV, Kaparullina EN, Trotsenko YA, Nortemann B, Bucheli-Witschel M, Weilenmann HU, Egli T. Chelativorans multitrophicus gen. nov., sp. nov. and Chelativorans oligotrophicus sp. nov., aerobic EDTA-degrading bacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1044-1051. 🇷🇺

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1715-1716.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Thermovum Yabe et al. 2012	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Emendations:
  • Kämpfer et al. 2015 Kampfer P, Arun AB, Busse HJ, Zhang ZL, Young CC, Glaeser SP. Chelativorans intermedius sp. nov. and proposal to reclassify Thermovum composti as Chelativorans composti comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1646-1652. 🇩🇪 Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 65, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:2343-2344.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 2 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Hördt et al. (2020) assigned this genus to the family Phyllobacteriaceae Mergaert and Swings 2006. 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. 🇩🇪
  • 🧕 Kämpfer et al. (2015) assigned this genus to the family Phyllobacteriaceae Mergaert and Swings 2006. Publication: Kampfer P, Arun AB, Busse HJ, Zhang ZL, Young CC, Glaeser SP. Chelativorans intermedius sp. nov. and proposal to reclassify Thermovum composti as Chelativorans composti comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1646-1652. 🇩🇪
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Chelatovorans".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Meng 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: KCTC: 7; CCTCC: 5; DSM: 3; VKM: 2; JCM: 1; CIP: 1; LMG: 1; CCM: 1; EGI: 1; CGMCC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 7
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 8
Total number of child taxa: 10

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Chelativorans alearense Meng et al. 2025	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    Chelativorans alearensis corrig. Meng et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Chelativorans composti (Yabe et al. 2012) Kämpfer et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Chelativorans intermedius Kämpfer et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Chelativorans multitrophicus Doronina et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Chelativorans oligotrophicus Doronina et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Chelativorans petroleitrophicus Yu et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Chelativorans salis Gao et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Chelativorans xinjiangense Meng et al. 2026	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    Chelativorans xinjiangensis corrig. Meng et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Bartonellaceae Gieszczykiewicz 1939 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: diCenzo GC, Yang Y, Young JPW, Kuzmanovic N. Refining the taxonomy of the order Hyphomicrobiales (Rhizobiales) based on whole genome comparisons of over 130 type strains. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6328. 🇨🇦

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