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Name: Leisingera Schaefer et al. 2002
Etymology: Lei.sin’ge.ra. N.L. fem. n. Leisingera, in honour of Thomas Leisinger, on the occasion of his retirement and for his contributions to our understanding of the biochemistry of bacterial methyl halide metabolism
Gender: feminine (stem: Leisinger-)
Type species: Leisingera methylohalidivorans Schaefer et al. 2002
Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS
Valid publication:
Schaefer JK, Goodwin KD, McDonald IR, Murrell JC, Oremland RS. Leisingera methylohalidivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine methylotroph that grows on methyl bromide. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:851-859.
IJSEM list:
Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 52, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1077-1079.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 6
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 7
Total number of child taxa: 7
Name | Nomenclatural status | Taxonomic status |
---|---|---|
Leisingera aquaemixtae (Park et al. 2014) Breider et al. 2014 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Leisingera aquimarina Vandecandelaere et al. 2008 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Leisingera caerulea (Vandecandelaere et al. 2009) Breider et al. 2014 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Leisingera daeponensis (Yoon et al. 2007) Breider et al. 2014 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Leisingera methylohalidivorans Schaefer et al. 2002 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Leisingera nanhaiensis Sun et al. 2010 | validly published under the ICNP | synonym |
Leisingera thetidis Kim et al. 2023 | 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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Record number: 515935