Name: Hoeflea Peix et al. 2005

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Hoe’fle.a. N.L. fem. n. Hoeflea, honouring Manfred Höfle, German microbiologist, in recognition of his contribution to the taxonomy of marine bacteria

Gender: feminine (stem: Hoefle-)

Type species: Hoeflea marina Peix et al. 2005

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Peix A, Rivas R, Trujillo ME, Vancanneyt M, Velazquez E, Willems A. Reclassification of Agrobacterium ferrugineum LMG 128 as Hoeflea marina gen. nov., sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1163-1166.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 55, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1747-1749.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Rahul et al. 2015 Rahul K, Azmatunnisa M, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV. Hoeflea olei sp. nov., a diesel-oil-degrading, anoxygenic, phototrophic bacterium isolated from backwaters and emended description of the genus Hoeflea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:2403-2409. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 65, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:3768-3770.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Peix et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Phyllobacteriaceae Mergaert and Swings 2006. Publication: Peix A, Rivas R, Trujillo ME, Vancanneyt M, Velazquez E, Willems A. Reclassification of Agrobacterium ferrugineum LMG 128 as Hoeflea marina gen. nov., sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1163-1166.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Hoelfea".
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Baek et al. (2023). 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 phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.03953 (N = 10).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 5; JCM: 4; KCTC: 3; VKM: 1; CECT: 1; NBRC: 1; MCCC: 1; NRRL: 1; ATCC: 1; NCIMB: 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: 10
Total number of child taxa: 12

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Hoeflea alexandrii Palacios et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Hoeflea algicola Baek et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Hoeflea anabaenae Stevenson et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Hoeflea halophila Jung et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Hoeflea marina Peix et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Hoeflea olei Rahul et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Hoeflea phototrophica Biebl et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Hoeflea poritis Zhang et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Hoeflea prorocentri" Yang et al. 2018	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Hoeflea siderophila" Sorokina et al. 2012	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    Hoeflea suaedae Chung et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Hoeflea ulvae Baek et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Rhizobiaceae Conn 1938 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468.

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