Name: Draconibacterium Du et al. 2014

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Dra.co.ni.bac.te’ri.um. L. masc. n. draco (gen. draconis), snake; N.L. neut. n. bacterium, staff, rod and, in biology, a bacterium; N.L. neut. n. Draconibacterium, the dragon bacterium

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): neuter (stem: Draconibacteri-), dra-ko-ni-bak-TE-ri-um

Type species: Draconibacterium orientale Du et al. 2014

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Du ZJ, Wang Y, Dunlap C, Rooney AP, Chen GJ. Draconibacterium orientale gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from two distinct marine environments, and proposal of Draconibacteriaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:1690-1696. 🇨🇳

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 64, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2509-2511.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Wang et al. 2024 Wang JY, Qiu SS, Su Y, Pan WY, Wang T, Zhang WW, Fu GY, Wu M. Draconibacterium aestuarii sp.nov., a Glycolipid-Producing Bacterium Isolated from Tidal Flat Sediment and Emended Description of the Genus Draconibacterium. Curr Microbiol 2024; 81:162. 🇨🇳
    Notes:
    • 🧍 As of 2024-07-24 this emendation was not yet included in an IJSEM List of Changes in Taxonomic Opinion.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Draconibacteriaceae Du et al. 2014. Publication: Du ZJ, Wang Y, Dunlap C, Rooney AP, Chen GJ. Draconibacterium orientale gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from two distinct marine environments, and proposal of Draconibacteriaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:1690-1696. 🇨🇳
  • 🧕 Du et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Draconibacteriaceae Du et al. 2014. Publication: Du ZJ, Wang Y, Dunlap C, Rooney AP, Chen GJ. Draconibacterium orientale gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from two distinct marine environments, and proposal of Draconibacteriaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:1690-1696. 🇨🇳
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Conibacterium"; "Dracinibacterium".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: KCTC: 5; MCCC: 3; JCM: 1; CICC: 1; DSM: 1; VTCC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 5
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 5
Total number of child taxa: 6

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Draconibacterium aestuarii" Wang et al. 2024	not validly published	preferred name
    Draconibacterium filum Gwak et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Draconibacterium halophilum Kim et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Draconibacterium mangrovi Hu et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Draconibacterium orientale Du et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Draconibacterium sediminis Du et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Prolixibacteraceae Huang et al. 2014

Assigned by: Iino T, Mori K, Itoh T, Kudo T, Suzuki K, Ohkuma M. Description of Mariniphaga anaerophila gen. nov., sp. nov., a facultatively aerobic marine bacterium isolated from tidal flat sediment, reclassification of the Draconibacteriaceae as a later heterotypic synonym of the Prolixibacteraceae and description of the family Marinifilaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3660-3667. 🇯🇵

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