Name: Mariprofundus Emerson et al. 2010

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ma.ri.pro.fun’dus. L. gen. neut. n. maris, the sea; L. masc. adj. profundus, deep; N.L. masc. n. Mariprofundus, a deep-sea organism

Gender, pronunciation: masculine (stem: Mariprofund-), ma-ri-pro-FUN-dus

Type species: Mariprofundus ferrooxydans Emerson et al. 2010

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Emerson D, Rentz JA, Lilburn TG, Davis RE, Aldrich H, Chan C, Moyer CL. A novel lineage of proteobacteria involved in formation of marine Fe-oxidizing microbial mat communities. PLoS One 2007; 2:e667.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 135. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1985-1986.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Mariprofundaceae Hördt et al. 2020. Publication: 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.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family "Mariprofundaceae" Emerson et al. 2007. Publication: Emerson D, Rentz JA, Lilburn TG, Davis RE, Aldrich H, Chan C, Moyer CL. A novel lineage of proteobacteria involved in formation of marine Fe-oxidizing microbial mat communities. PLoS One 2007; 2:e667.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order "Mariprofundales" Makita et al. 2017. Publication: Makita H, Tanaka E, Mitsunobu S, Miyazaki M, Nunoura T, Uematsu K, Takaki Y, Nishi S, Shimamura S, Takai K. Mariprofundus micogutta sp. nov., a novel iron-oxidizing zetaproteobacterium isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal field at the Bayonnaise knoll of the Izu-Ogasawara arc, and a description of Mariprofundales ord. nov. and Zetaproteobacteria classis nov. Arch Microbiol 2017; 199:335-346.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order Mariprofundales Hördt et al. 2020. Publication: 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.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order "Candidatus Mariprofundales" Emerson et al. 2007. Publication: Emerson D, Rentz JA, Lilburn TG, Davis RE, Aldrich H, Chan C, Moyer CL. A novel lineage of proteobacteria involved in formation of marine Fe-oxidizing microbial mat communities. PLoS One 2007; 2:e667.
  • 🧕 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned this genus to the class "Candidatus Mariprofundia" corrig. Emerson et al. 2007. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.
  • 🧕 Hördt et al. (2020) assigned this genus to the order Mariprofundales Hördt et al. 2020. Publication: 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.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: ATCC: 1; DSM: 1; JCM: 1; KCTC: 1.
  • 🧍 The genus name Mariprofundus does not make sense (it means the deep sea!), and it is grammatically incorrect (the Latin noun mare is in the neuter gender and the grammatically correct name should be Mariprofundum). Unfortunately, this error was not corrected by the List Editor of the IJSEM. Publication: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 135. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1985-1986.
  • 🧍 The type species has been provided at the time of request for valid publication of the name. Publication: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 135. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1985-1986.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 5

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Mariprofundus aestuarium" Chiu et al. 2017	not validly published	preferred name
    "Mariprofundus erugo" Garrison et al. 2019	not validly published	preferred name
    "Mariprofundus ferrinatatus" Chiu et al. 2017	not validly published	preferred name
    Mariprofundus ferrooxydans Emerson et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Mariprofundus micogutta" Makita et al. 2017	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: Mariprofundaceae Hördt et al. 2020

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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