Genus Epibacterium

Name: Epibacterium Penesyan et al. 2013

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: E.pi.bac.te’ri.um. Gr. prep. epi, on (also as adverb); N.L. neut. n. bacterium, a small rod or staff; N.L. neut. n. Epibacterium, rod on a surface

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): neuter (stem: Epibacteri-), e-pi-bak-TE-ri-um

Type species: Epibacterium ulvae Penesyan et al. 2013

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Penesyan A, Breider S, Schumann P, Tindall BJ, Egan S, Brinkhoff T. Epibacterium ulvae gen. nov., sp. nov., epibiotic bacteria isolated from the surface of a marine alga. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1589-1596. 🇦🇺

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2755-2756.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Emendations:
- Wirth and Whitman 2018 Wirth JS, Whitman WB. Phylogenomic analyses of a clade within the roseobacter group suggest taxonomic reassignments of species of the genera Aestuariivita, Citreicella, Loktanella, Nautella, Pelagibaca, Ruegeria, Thalassobius, Thiobacimonas and Tropicibacter, and the proposal of six novel genera. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:2393-2411. 🇺🇸 Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 68, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:3077-3079.
  Notes:
  - ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 3 new species in the genus.
- Liang et al. 2021 Liang KYH, Orata FD, Boucher YF, Case RJ. Roseobacters in a Sea of Poly- and Paraphyly: Whole Genome-Based Taxonomy of the Family Rhodobacteraceae and the Proposal for the Split of the "Roseobacter Clade" Into a Novel Family, Roseobacteraceae fam. nov. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:683109. 🇨🇦 Oren A, Göker M. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 38. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5923.
  Notes:
  - ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

Notes:
- 🧕 Wirth and Whitman (2018) assigned this genus to the family Rhodobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Wirth JS, Whitman WB. Phylogenomic analyses of a clade within the roseobacter group suggest taxonomic reassignments of species of the genera Aestuariivita, Citreicella, Loktanella, Nautella, Pelagibaca, Ruegeria, Thalassobius, Thiobacimonas and Tropicibacter, and the proposal of six novel genera. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:2393-2411. 🇺🇸
- 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Tritonibacter Klotz et al. 2018. 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. 🇩🇪
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Exibacterium".
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 4; LMG: 3; CCUG: 1; CECT: 1; NBRC: 1; CIP: 1; KCTC: 1; MBIC: 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: 5
Total number of child taxa: 5

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Epibacterium horizontis (Klotz et al. 2018) Liang et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
Epibacterium mobile (Muramatsu et al. 2007) Wirth and Whitman 2018	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
Epibacterium multivorans (Lucena et al. 2012) Wirth and Whitman 2018	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
Epibacterium scottomollicae (Vandecandelaere et al. 2008) Wirth and Whitman 2018	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
Epibacterium ulvae Penesyan et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Roseobacteraceae Liang et al. 2021

Assigned by: Liang KYH, Orata FD, Boucher YF, Case RJ. Roseobacters in a Sea of Poly- and Paraphyly: Whole Genome-Based Taxonomy of the Family Rhodobacteraceae and the Proposal for the Split of the "Roseobacter Clade" Into a Novel Family, Roseobacteraceae fam. nov. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:683109. 🇨🇦

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