Name: Gracilimonas Choi et al. 2009

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Gra.ci.li’mo.nas. L. masc./fem. adj. gracilis, slim, slender, thin; L. fem. n. monas, a unit, monad; N.L. fem. n. Gracilimonas, thin unit (bacterium), relating to its shape

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Gracilimonad-), gra-ki-LI-mo-nas

Type species: Gracilimonas tropica Choi et al. 2009

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Choi DH, Zhang GI, Noh JH, Kim WS, Cho BC. Gracilimonas tropica gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a Synechococcus culture. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1167-1172.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1853-1855.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Cho et al. 2013 Cho Y, Chung H, Jang GI, Choi DH, Noh JH, Cho BC. Gracilimonas rosea sp. nov., isolated from tropical seawater, and emended description of the genus Gracilimonas. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:4006-4011. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:313-315.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
    • 😢 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. Whether taxa can have "members" is debatable. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Chitinophagaceae Kämpfer et al. 2011. Publication: 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.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Gracilimo"; "Graciliomonas".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Cho et al. (2013). 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: KCTC: 5; MCCC: 3; DSM: 2; JCM: 2; KCCM: 2; CGMCC: 1; ACCC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 7
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 7
Total number of child taxa: 8

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Gracilimonas amylolytica Wu et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Gracilimonas aurantiaca Jayan et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Gracilimonas halophila Lu et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Gracilimonas mengyeensis Wang et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Gracilimonas qinghaiensis" Wang et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name
    Gracilimonas rosea Cho et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Gracilimonas sediminicola Lee et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Gracilimonas tropica Choi et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Balneolaceae Xia et al. 2016

Assigned by: Xia J, Ling SK, Wang XQ, Chen GJ, Du ZJ. Aliifodinibius halophilus sp. nov., a moderately halophilic member of the genus Aliifodinibius, and proposal of Balneolaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2225-2233.

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