Name: Eisenibacter Hahnke et al. 2017

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ei.se.ni.bac’ter. German neut. n. Eisen, named after Jonathan A. Eisen, professor at University of California, Davis, CA, USA, who played a decisive role in starting the GEBA project; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Eisenibacter, a rod named after Jonathan A. Eisen

Gender, pronunciation: masculine (stem: Eisenibacter-), e͡i-se-ni-BAK-ter

Type species: Eisenibacter elegans (Reichenbach 1989 ex Lewin 1969) Hahnke et al. 2017

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:2003.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 175. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1095-1098.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Flexibacter Soriano 1945 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Reichenbach H. Genus Flexibacter Soriano 1945, 92, AL emend. In: Staley JT, Bryant MP, Pfennig N, Holt JG (eds), Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology, vol. 3., The Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1989, p. 2061-2071.
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is -0.02158 (N = 16).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 1; IFO: 1; CIP: 1; ATCC: 1; DSM: 1; NBRC: 1; LMG: 1.

Subdivision:

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

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Eisenibacter elegans (Reichenbach 1989 ex Lewin 1969) Hahnke et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Microscillaceae Hahnke et al. 2017

Assigned by: Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:2003.

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