Name: Chitiniphilus Sato et al. 2009

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Chi.ti.ni.phi.lus. N.L. neut. n. chitinum, chitin; N.L. masc. adj. suff. -philus, friend, loving; from Gr. masc. adj. philos, on; N.L. masc. n. Chitiniphilus, chitin-loving, referring to the substrate used for the isolation of this organism

Gender: masculine (stem: Chitiniphil-)

Type species: Chitiniphilus shinanonensis Sato et al. 2009

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Sato K, Kato Y, Taguchi G, Nogawa M, Yokota A, Shimosaka M. Chitiniphilus shinanonensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel chitin-degrading bacterium belonging to Betaproteobacteria. J Gen Appl Microbiol 2009; 55:147-153.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 129. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2129-2130.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Chen et al. (2021) assigned this genus to the family Chitinibacteraceae Chen et al. 2022. Publication: Chen S, Rudra B, Gupta RS. Phylogenomics and molecular signatures support division of the order Neisseriales into emended families Neisseriaceae and Chromobacteriaceae and three new families Aquaspirillaceae fam. nov., Chitinibacteraceae fam. nov., and Leeiaceae fam. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2021; 44:126251.
  • 🧕 Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Neisseriaceae Prévot 1933 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO. The SILVA and “all-species living tree project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; 42(D1):D643-D648.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Chitindphilus"; "Chitiniphiinus".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: KCTC: 2; DSM: 1; NCIMB: 1; NBRC: 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
    Chitiniphilus eburneus Sheng et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Chitiniphilus purpureus Li et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Chitiniphilus shinanonensis Sato et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Chromobacteriaceae Adeolu and Gupta 2013

Assigned by: Adeolu M, Gupta RS. Phylogenomics and molecular signatures for the order Neisseriales: proposal for division of the order Neisseriales into the emended family Neisseriaceae and Chromobacteriaceae fam. nov. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2013; 104:1-24.

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