Name: Devosia Nakagawa et al. 1996

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: De.vo’si.a. N.L. fem. n. Devosia, honoring Paul De Vos, a Belgian microbiologist, for his basic contribution to the taxonomy of pseudomonads

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Devosi-), de-WO-si-a

Type species: Devosia riboflavina (ex Foster 1944) Nakagawa et al. 1996

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Nakagawa Y, Sakane T, Yokota A. Transfer of "Pseudomonas riboflavina" (Foster 1944), a gram-negative, motile rod with long-chain 3-hydroxy fatty acids, to Devosia riboflavina gen. nov., sp. nov., nom. rev. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1996; 46:16-22. 🇯🇵

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 46, part 1 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1996; 46:627.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Vasilyevaea Yee et al. 2010	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Emendations:
  • Rivas et al. 2003 Rivas R, Willems A, Subba-Rao NS, Mateos PF, Dazzo FB, Kroppenstedt RM, Martinez-Molina E, Gillis M, Velazquez E. Description of Devosia neptuniae sp. nov. that nodulates and fixes nitrogen in symbiosis with Neptunia natans, an aquatic legume from India. Syst Appl Microbiol 2003; 26:47-53. 🇪🇸 Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 92. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:935-937.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
  • Yoo et al. 2006 Yoo SH, Weon HY, Kim BY, Hong SB, Kwon SW, Cho YH, Go SJ, Stackebrandt E. Devosia soli sp. nov., isolated from greenhouse soil in Korea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:2689-2692. 🇰🇷 Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 56, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:199-200.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
  • Yoon et al. 2007 Yoon JH, Kang SJ, Park S, Oh TK. Devosia insulae sp. nov., isolated from soil, and emended description of the genus Devosia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1310-1314. 🇰🇷 Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1935-1936.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
    • 😢 The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. Contrasting the term "chemotaxonomic" with "phenotypic" is not recommended. Using the term "phylogenetic data" (or equivalent) for sequence data is not advocated. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details.
  • Zhang et al. 2012 Zhang DC, Redzic M, Liu HC, Zhou YG, Schinner F, Margesin R. Devosia psychrophila sp. nov. and Devosia glacialis sp. nov., from alpine glacier cryoconite, and an emended description of the genus Devosia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:710-715. 🇦🇹 Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 62, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1221-1222.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 2 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Devosiaceae 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. 🇩🇪
  • 🧕 Rivas et al. (2003) assigned this genus to the family Hyphomicrobiaceae Babudieri 1950 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Rivas R, Willems A, Subba-Rao NS, Mateos PF, Dazzo FB, Kroppenstedt RM, Martinez-Molina E, Gillis M, Velazquez E. Description of Devosia neptuniae sp. nov. that nodulates and fixes nitrogen in symbiosis with Neptunia natans, an aquatic legume from India. Syst Appl Microbiol 2003; 26:47-53. 🇪🇸
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Devoisa"; "Devosiafa"; "Devosiu"; "Devosu".
  • 🧔 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: Mousavi SA, Young JPW. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Rhizobia and Agrobacteria. Minutes of the closed annual meeting: videoconference on 11 October 2022 followed by online discussion until 31 December 2022. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5856. 🇬🇧
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Mousavi SA, Young JPW. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes, Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Rhizobia and Agrobacteria, minutes of the annual meeting by videoconference, 5 July 2021, followed by online discussion until 31 December 2021. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5453. 🇫🇮
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Mousavi SA, Young JPW. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Rhizobia and Agrobacteria: Minutes of the closed annual meeting, videoconference on 2 October 2023, followed by online discussion until 31 December 2023. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6276. 🇫🇮
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Mousavi SA, Young JPW. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Rhizobia and Agrobacteria: minutes of the 2024 closed annual meeting. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6680. 🇫🇮
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Mousavi SA, Young JPW. International committee on systematics of prokaryotes subcommittee on the taxonomy of rhizobia and agrobacteria: Minutes of the 2025 closed annual meeting. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2026; 76:7149. 🇫🇮
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Lindstroem E, Martinez-Romero ME. Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Agrobacterium and Rhizobium: Minutes of the meeting, 26 July 2004, Toulouse, France. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2005; 55:1383-1383.
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Verma et al. (2009), Chhetri et al. (2023), Kim et al. (2024), Kaempfer 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: 17; DSM: 14; JCM: 13; CGMCC: 10; LMG: 9; NBRC: 9; CCM: 7; KACC: 7; CIP: 4; MTCC: 3.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1". — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 41
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 42
Total number of child taxa: 53

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Devosia alba Qiu et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Devosia albogilva Verma et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Devosia algicola Kim et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Devosia aquimaris" Lai et al. 2024	not validly published	preferred name
    Devosia aurantiaca Khan et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Devosia beringensis Zhang et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Devosia chinhatensis Kumar et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Devosia confluentis Park et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Devosia crocina Verma et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Devosia elaeis Mohd Nor et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Devosia enhydra (Staley 1968) Park et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Devosia epidermidihirudinis Galatis et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Devosia equisanguinis Kämpfer et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Candidatus Devosia euplotis" Vannini et al. 2004	not validly published	pro-correct name
    Devosia faecipullorum Lin et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Devosia geojensis Ryu et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Devosia ginsengisoli Quan et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Devosia glacialis Zhang et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Devosia honganensis Zhang et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Devosia humi Du et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Devosia indica Lin et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Devosia insulae Yoon et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Devosia lacusdianchii Deng et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Devosia limi Vanparys et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Devosia litorisediminis" Park et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name
    "Devosia lucknowensis" Dua et al. 2013	not validly published	preferred name
    Devosia marina Liu et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Devosia mishustinii (Vasil'eva et al. 2009) Park et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Devosia mutans" He 2015	not validly published	preferred name
    "Devosia nanyangense" Onyango et al. 2014	not validly published	preferred name
    Devosia naphthalenivorans Chen et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Devosia neptuniae Rivas et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Devosia nitraria Xu et al. 2018	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    Devosia nitrariae corrig. Xu et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Devosia oryziradicis Chhetri et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Devosia oryzisoli Chhetri et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Devosia pacifica Jia et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Candidatus Devosia phytovorans" Diaz-Garcia et al. 2023	not validly published	preferred name
    "Devosia polycyclovorans" Wang et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name
    Devosia psychrophila Zhang et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Devosia rhizoryzae Chhetri et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Devosia rhizosphaerae Tian et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Devosia rhodophyticola Kim et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Devosia riboflavina (ex Foster 1944) Nakagawa et al. 1996	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Devosia salina Pang et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Devosia sediminis Ma et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Devosia soli Yoo et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Devosia subaequoris Lee 2007	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Devosia submarina Romanenko et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Candidatus Devosia symbiotica" Boscaro et al. 2018	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Devosia terrae" Lee 2007	not validly published	synonym
    Devosia ureilytica Li et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Devosia yakushimensis Bautista et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Devosiaceae 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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