Name: Fontimonas Losey et al. 2013

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Fon.ti.mo.nas. L. masc. n. fons (gen. fontis), a spring, fountain; L. fem. n. monas, a unit, monad; N.L. fem. n. Fontimonas, a monad (bacterium) isolated from a spring

Gender: feminine (stem: Fontimonad-)

Type species: Fontimonas thermophila Losey et al. 2013

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Losey NA, Stevenson BS, Verbarg S, Rudd S, Moore ER, Lawson PA. Fontimonas thermophila gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic bacterium isolated from a freshwater hot spring, and proposal of Solimonadaceae fam. nov. to replace Sinobacteraceae Zhou et al. 2008. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:254-259.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1211-1213.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Losey et al. (2013) assigned this genus to the family Solimonadaceae Losey et al. 2013. Publication: Losey NA, Stevenson BS, Verbarg S, Rudd S, Moore ER, Lawson PA. Fontimonas thermophila gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic bacterium isolated from a freshwater hot spring, and proposal of Solimonadaceae fam. nov. to replace Sinobacteraceae Zhou et al. 2008. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:254-259.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: CCUG: 1; DSM: 1.
  • 🧍 The word fons (genitive fontis) is a Latin noun, not a Latin adjective as cited in the paper by Losey et al. 2013. Publication: Euzeby JP. List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:590-592.

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
    Fontimonas thermophila Losey et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Nevskiaceae Henrici and Johnson 1935 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Liu Q, Liu HC, Zhou YG, Xin YH. Stenotrophobium rhamnosiphilum gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a glacier, proposal of Steroidobacteraceae fam. nov. in Nevskiales and emended description of the family Nevskiaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:1404-1410.

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