Name: Empedobacter (ex Prévot 1961) Vandamme et al. 1994
Proposed as: gen. nov., nom. rev.
Etymology: Em.pe.do.bac.ter. Gr. masc./fem. adj. empedos, fixed, immovable; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a small rod; N.L. masc. n. Empedobacter, nonmotile rod
Gender: masculine (stem: Empedobacter-)
Type species: Empedobacter brevis (Holmes and Owen 1982 ex Lustig 1890) Vandamme et al. 1994
Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS
Valid publication: Vandamme P, Bernardet JF, Segers P, Kersters K, Holmes B. New perspectives in the classification of the flavobacteria: description of Chryseobacterium gen. nov., Bergeyella gen. nov., and Empedobacter nom. rev. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1994; 44:827-831.
IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 44, part 4 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1995; 45:199-200.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name
Name | Kind |
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Wautersiella Kämpfer et al. 2006 | heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP |
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: 7
Name | Nomenclatural status | Taxonomic status |
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Empedobacter brevis (Holmes and Owen 1982 ex Lustig 1890) Vandamme et al. 1994 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
"Empedobacter collagenolyticum" Montel and Labadie 1982 | not validly published | preferred name (not correct name) |
Empedobacter falsenii (Kämpfer et al. 2006) Zhang et al. 2014 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
"Empedobacter haloabium" Konishi et al. 1984 | not validly published | preferred name (not correct name) |
Empedobacter sedimenti Ruan et al. 2023 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Empedobacter stercoris Schauss et al. 2015 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Empedobacter tilapiae Kim et al. 2019 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Parent taxon: Weeksellaceae García-López et al. 2020
Assigned by: Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083.
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