Genus Faunimonas

Name: Faunimonas Proença et al. 2022

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: Fau.ni’mo.nas. L. masc. n. Faunus, ancient mythical king of Lazio, venerated as the god of the forest, plain and fields; L. fem. n. monas, the number one, unit; N.L. fem. n. Faunimonas, unicellular organism from the forest, plain and fields

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Faunimonad-), fa͡u-NI-mo-nas

Type species: Faunimonas pinastri Proença et al. 2022

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Proenca DN, Whitman WB, Shapiro N, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Morais PV. Faunimonas pinastri gen. nov., sp. nov., an endophyte from a pine tree of the family Pleomorphomonadaceae, class Alphaproteobacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5623. 🇵🇹

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 72, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5799.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Proença et al. (2022) assigned this genus to the family Pleomorphomonadaceae Hördt et al. 2020. Publication: Proenca DN, Whitman WB, Shapiro N, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Morais PV. Faunimonas pinastri gen. nov., sp. nov., an endophyte from a pine tree of the family Pleomorphomonadaceae, class Alphaproteobacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5623. 🇵🇹
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Faunomonas".
  • 😢 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. Publication: Göker M. What can genome analysis offer for bacteria? In: Bridge P, Smith D, Stackebrandt E (eds), Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi, CAB International, Wallingford, 2021, p. 255-281. 🇬🇧
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: UCCCB: 1; CECT: 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
    Faunimonas pinastri Proença et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Afifellaceae Hördt et al. 2020

Assigned by: diCenzo GC, Yang Y, Young JPW, Kuzmanovic N. Refining the taxonomy of the order Hyphomicrobiales (Rhizobiales) based on whole genome comparisons of over 130 type strains. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6328. 🇨🇦

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