Genus Litoreibacter

Name: Litoreibacter Romanenko et al. 2011

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Li.to.re.i.bac.ter. L. masc. adj. litoreus, belonging to the seashore; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Litoreibacter, rod from the seashore

Gender: masculine (stem: Litoreibacter-)

Type species: Litoreibacter albidus Romanenko et al. 2011

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Romanenko LA, Tanaka N, Frolova GM, Svetashev VI, Mikhailov VV. Litoreibacter albidus gen. nov., sp. nov. and Litoreibacter janthinus sp. nov., members of the class Alphaproteobacteria isolated from the seashore. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:148-154.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 61, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:701-702.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Emendations:
- Kim et al. 2012 Kim YO, Park S, Nam BH, Kang SJ, Hur YB, Kim DG, Oh TK, Yoon JH. Description of Litoreibacter meonggei sp. nov., isolated from the sea squirt Halocynthia roretzi, reclassification of Thalassobacter arenae as Litoreibacter arenae comb. nov. and emended description of the genus Litoreibacter Romanenko et al. 2011. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1825-1831. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 62, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2555-2556.
  Notes:
  - ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 2 new species in the genus.

Notes:
- 🧕 Romanenko et al. (2011) assigned this genus to the family Rhodobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Romanenko LA, Tanaka N, Frolova GM, Svetashev VI, Mikhailov VV. Litoreibacter albidus gen. nov., sp. nov. and Litoreibacter janthinus sp. nov., members of the class Alphaproteobacteria isolated from the seashore. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:148-154.
- 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Park et al. (2014). 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: DSM: 8; KCTC: 4; NRIC: 2; CCUG: 2; KMM: 2; JCM: 2; NBRC: 2; CECT: 1; KACC: 1.

Subdivision:

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

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Litoreibacter albidus Romanenko et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Litoreibacter arenae (Kim et al. 2009) Kim et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Litoreibacter ascidiaceicola Kim et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Litoreibacter halocynthiae Kim et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Litoreibacter janthinus Romanenko et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Litoreibacter meonggei Kim et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Litoreibacter ponti Park et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Litoreibacter roseus Kanamuro et al. 2021	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 Litoreibacter