Genus Halocynthiibacter

Name: Halocynthiibacter Kim et al. 2014

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ha.lo.cyn.thi.i.bac’ter. N.L. fem. n. Halocynthia, generic name of the sea squirt H. roretzi; N.L. masc. n. bacter, rod; N.L. masc. n. Halocynthiibacter, rod from the sea squirt H. roretzi

Gender: masculine (stem: Halocynthiibacter-)

Type species: Halocynthiibacter namhaensis Kim et al. 2014

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Kim YO, Park S, Kim H, Park DS, Nam BH, Kim DG, Yoon JH. Halocynthiibacter namhaensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel alphaproteobacterium isolated from sea squirt Halocynthia roretzi. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2014; 105:881-889.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 160. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3603-3606.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Falsihalocynthiibacter Liang et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
Paenihalocynthiibacter Kim et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Notes:
- 🧕 Kim et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Rhodobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Kim YO, Park S, Kim H, Park DS, Nam BH, Kim DG, Yoon JH. Halocynthiibacter namhaensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel alphaproteobacterium isolated from sea squirt Halocynthia roretzi. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2014; 105:881-889.
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Halocynthibacter"; "Halocynthiibacte"; "Halocyntiibacter".
- 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Kim et al. (2021). 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 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: KCTC: 4; NBRC: 2; DSM: 1; JCM: 1; MCCC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 5

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
"Candidatus Halocynthiibacter alkanivorans" Campeão et al. 2019	not validly published	pro-correct name
Halocynthiibacter arcticus Baek et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Halocynthiibacter halioticoli" Zhang et al. 2023	not validly published	preferred name
Halocynthiibacter namhaensis Kim et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Halocynthiibacter styelae (Kim et al. 2021) Huang et al. 2024	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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Genus Halocynthiibacter