Name: Fructobacillus Endo and Okada 2008

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Fruc.to.ba.cil’lus. N.L. masc. n. Fructobacillus, arbitrarily derived from fructose and Lactobacillus, intended to mean fructose-loving lactic acid-producing bacillus

Gender: masculine (stem: Fructobacill-)

Type species: Fructobacillus fructosus (Kodama 1956) Endo and Okada 2008

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Endo A, Okada S. Reclassification of the genus Leuconostoc and proposals of Fructobacillus fructosus gen. nov., comb. nov., Fructobacillus durionis comb. nov., Fructobacillus ficulneus comb. nov. and Fructobacillus pseudoficulneus comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:2195-2205.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 58, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:2675-2676.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Bello et al. 2022 Bello S, Rudra B, Gupta RS. Phylogenomic and comparative genomic analyses of Leuconostocaceae species: identification of molecular signatures specific for the genera Leuconostoc, Fructobacillus and Oenococcus and proposal for a novel genus Periweissella gen. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5284. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 72, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5393.

• Notes:
  • Zheng et al. (2020) assigned this genus to the family Lactobacillaceae Winslow et al. 1917 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Zheng J, Wittouck S, Salvetti E, Franz CMAP, Harris HMB, Mattarelli P, O'Toole PW, Pot B, Vandamme P, Walter J, et al. A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:2782-2858.
  • The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Kodama R. Studies on the nutrition of lactic acid bacteria. Part I. Lactobacillus fructosus nov. sp., a new species of lactic acid bacteria. Journal of the Agricultural Chemical Society of Japan 1956; 30:705-708.
  • The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Leuconostoc van Tieghem 1878 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Antunes A, Rainey FA, Nobre MF, Schumann P, Ferreira AM, Ramos A, Santos H, da Costa MS. Leuconostoc ficulneum sp. nov., a novel lactic acid bacterium isolated from a ripe fig, and reclassification of Lactobacillus fructosus as Leuconostoc fructosum comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:647-655.
  • This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Bonaparte C, Klein G. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Bifidobacterium, Lactobacillus and related organisms. Minutes of the meetings, 31 August 2011, Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2546-2548.
  • Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Endo et al. (2011). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
  • The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: NBRC: 5; DSM: 5; BCRC: 4; JCM: 3; NRRL: 2; LMG: 2; CCUG: 2; NCIMB: 1; NRIC: 1; ATCC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 9
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 9
Total number of child taxa: 9

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Fructobacillus broussonetiae Lin et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Fructobacillus durionis (Leisner et al. 2005) Endo and Okada 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Fructobacillus ficulneus (Antunes et al. 2002) Endo and Okada 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Fructobacillus fructosus (Kodama 1956) Endo and Okada 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Fructobacillus papyriferae Lin et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Fructobacillus papyrifericola Lin et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Fructobacillus parabroussonetiae Lin et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Fructobacillus pseudoficulneus (Chambel et al. 2006) Endo and Okada 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Fructobacillus tropaeoli Endo et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Leuconostocaceae Schleifer 2010

Assigned by: Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO. The SILVA and “all-species living tree project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; 42(D1):D643-D648.

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