Name: "Citromicrobium" Yurkov et al. 1999

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ci.tro.mi.cro’bi.um. Gr. neut. n. kitron, citron; N.L. masc. adj. micros, small [probably better: micrus]; Gr. masc. n. bios, life; N.L. neut. n. Citromicrobium, citron-colored microbe

Gender: neuter (stem: Citromicrobi-)

Type species: "Citromicrobium bathyomarinum" Yurkov et al. 1999

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Yurkov VV, Krieger S, Stackebrandt E, Beatty JT. Citromicrobium bathyomarinum, a novel aerobic bacterium isolated from deep-sea hydrothermal vent plume waters that contains photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes. J Bacteriol 1999; 181:4517-4525.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Yurkov et al. (1999) assigned this genus to the class "Alphaproteobacteria". Publication: Yurkov VV, Krieger S, Stackebrandt E, Beatty JT. Citromicrobium bathyomarinum, a novel aerobic bacterium isolated from deep-sea hydrothermal vent plume waters that contains photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes. J Bacteriol 1999; 181:4517-4525.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Cirtomicrobium"; "Nitromicrobium".
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Imhoff JF, Madigan MT. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of phototrophic bacteria. Minutes of the Meetings, 28 August 2000, Barcelona, Spain. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2002; 52:2335-2336.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Citromicrobium bathyomarinum" Yurkov et al. 1999	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Sphingomonadaceae Kosako et al. 2000

Assigned by: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Class I. Alphaproteobacteria class. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 1.

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