Name: Methylibium Nakatsu et al. 2006

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Me.thy.li’bi.um. N.L. neut. n. methyl, the methyl radical, the methyl group; Gr. masc. n. bios, life; N.L. neut. n. Methylibium, referring to methylotroph

Gender, pronunciation: neuter (stem: Methylibi-), me-t^hy-LI-bi-um

Type species: Methylibium petroleiphilum Nakatsu et al. 2006

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Nakatsu CH, Hristova K, Hanada S, Meng XY, Hanson JR, Scow KM, Kamagata Y. Methylibium petroleiphilum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel methyl tert-butyl ether-degrading methylotroph of the Betaproteobacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:983-989.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 56, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1719-1720.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Pseudorivibacter Zhou et al. 2020	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Emendations:
  • Yoon et al. 2007 Yoon MH, Ten LN, Im WT, Lee ST. Methylibium fulvum sp. nov., a member of the Betaproteobacteria isolated from ginseng field soil, and emended description of the genus Methylibium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2062-2066. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2727-2728.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
  • Stackebrandt et al. 2009 Stackebrandt E, Verbarg S, Fruhling A, Busse HJ, Tindall BJ. Dissection of the genus Methylibium: reclassification of Methylibium fulvum as Rhizobacter fulvus comb. nov., Methylibium aquaticum as Piscinibacter aquaticus gen. nov., comb. nov. and Methylibium subsaxonicum as Rivibacter subsaxonicus gen. nov., comb. nov. and emended descriptions of the genera Rhizobacter and Methylibium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2552-2560. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:3-4.
    Notes:
    • ⊖ Emendation accompanied by the removal of 3 species from the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Stackebrandt et al. (2009) assigned this genus to the order Burkholderiales Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Stackebrandt E, Verbarg S, Fruhling A, Busse HJ, Tindall BJ. Dissection of the genus Methylibium: reclassification of Methylibium fulvum as Rhizobacter fulvus comb. nov., Methylibium aquaticum as Piscinibacter aquaticus gen. nov., comb. nov. and Methylibium subsaxonicum as Rivibacter subsaxonicus gen. nov., comb. nov. and emended descriptions of the genera Rhizobacter and Methylibium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2552-2560.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Methylobium".
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.04753 (N = 7).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 3; LMG: 2; KCTC: 2; CIP: 1; KCCM: 1; ATCC: 1; NBRC: 1; CGMCC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 5
Total number of child taxa: 5

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Methylibium aquaticum Song and Cho 2007	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Methylibium fulvum Yoon et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Methylibium petroleiphilum Nakatsu et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methylibium rhizosphaerae (Zhou et al. 2020) Liu et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methylibium subsaxonicum Stackebrandt et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	synonym

Parent taxon: Sphaerotilaceae Liu et al. 2023

Assigned by: Lu H, Chen L. Ideonella margarita sp. nov., Ideonella lacteola sp. nov., Pseudaquabacterium inlustre sp. nov. and Pseudaquabacterium rugosum sp. nov., isolated from streams in China and re-examining the taxonomic status of all the genera within the family Sphaerotilaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6495.

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