Genus Leisingera

Name: Leisingera Schaefer et al. 2002

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

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

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

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

Emendations:
- Martens et al. 2006 Martens T, Heidorn T, Pukall R, Simon M, Tindall BJ, Brinkhoff T. Reclassification of Roseobacter gallaeciensis Ruiz-Ponte et al. 1998 as Phaeobacter gallaeciensis gen. nov., comb. nov., description of Phaeobacter inhibens sp. nov., reclassification of Ruegeria algicola (Lafay et al. 1995) Uchino et al. 1999 as Marinovum algicola gen. nov., comb. nov., and emended descriptions of the genera Roseobacter, Ruegeria and Leisingera. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1293-1304. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 56, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:2029-2030.
- Vandecandelaere et al. 2008 Vandecandelaere I, Segaert E, Mollica A, Faimali M, Vandamme P. Leisingera aquimarina sp. nov., isolated from a marine electroactive biofilm, and emended descriptions of Leisingera methylohalidivorans Schaefer et al. 2002, Phaeobacter daeponensis Yoon et al. 2007 and Phaeobacter inhibens Martens et al. 2006. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:2788-2793. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 58, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:452-453.
  Notes:
  - Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
- Breider et al. 2014 Breider S, Scheuner C, Schumann P, Fiebig A, Petersen J, Pradella S, Klenk HP, Brinkhoff T, Goker M. Genome-scale data suggest reclassifications in the Leisingera-Phaeobacter cluster including proposals for Sedimentitalea gen. nov. and Pseudophaeobacter gen. nov. Front Microbiol 2014; 5:416. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 21. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:7-10.
  Notes:
  - Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 3 new species in the genus.
  - Emendation accompanied by the removal of 1 species from the genus.

Notes:
- This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Leisingeria"; "Leisnigera".
- Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Vandecandelaere et al. (2009). 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 0.10615 (N = 1).
- The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 5; LMG: 3; CCUG: 2; KCTC: 2; ATCC: 1; CECT: 1; JCM: 1; MCCC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 5
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 6
Total number of child taxa: 6

Child taxa:

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

Parent taxon: Rhodobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006

Assigned by: Breider S, Scheuner C, Schumann P, Fiebig A, Petersen J, Pradella S, Klenk HP, Brinkhoff T, Goker M. Genome-scale data suggest reclassifications in the Leisingera-Phaeobacter cluster including proposals for Sedimentitalea gen. nov. and Pseudophaeobacter gen. nov. Front Microbiol 2014; 5:416.

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