Name: Microvirga Kanso and Patel 2003

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Mi.cro.vir’ga. Gr. masc. adj. mikros, small; L. fem. n. virga, rod; N.L. fem. n. Microvirga, a small rod

Gender: feminine

Type species: Microvirga subterranea Kanso and Patel 2003

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kanso S, Patel BK. Microvirga subterranea gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderate thermophile from a deep subsurface Australian thermal aquifer. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:401-406.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 53, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:939-940.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Balneomonas Takeda et al. 2004	heterotypic synonym, orthographic variant
    Balneimonas corrig. Takeda et al. 2004	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Emendations:
  • Zhang et al. 2009 Zhang J, Song F, Xin YH, Zhang J, Fang C. Microvirga guangxiensis sp. nov., a novel alphaproteobacterium from soil, and emended description of the genus Microvirga. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1997-2001. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2649-2650.
    Notes:
    • Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
  • Weon et al. 2010 Weon HY, Kwon SW, Son JA, Jo EH, Kim SJ, Kim YS, Kim BY, Ka JO. Description of Microvirga aerophila sp. nov. and Microvirga aerilata sp. nov., isolated from air, reclassification of Balneimonas flocculans Takeda et al. 2004 as Microvirga flocculans comb. nov. and emended description of the genus Microvirga. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2596-2600. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:221-222.
    Notes:
    • Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 3 new species in the genus.
  • Ardley et al. 2012 Ardley JK, Parker MA, De Meyer SE, Trengove RD, O'Hara GW, Reeve WG, Yates RJ, Dilworth MJ, Willems A, Howieson JG. Microvirga lupini sp. nov., Microvirga lotononidis sp. nov. and Microvirga zambiensis sp. nov. are alphaproteobacterial root-nodule bacteria that specifically nodulate and fix nitrogen with geographically and taxonomically separate legume hosts. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2579-2588. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 62, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:399-400.
    Notes:
    • Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 3 new species in the genus.
  • Zhang et al. 2019 Zhang XJ, Zhang J, Yao Q, Feng GD, Zhu HH. Microvirga flavescens sp. nov., a novel bacterium isolated from forest soil and emended description of the genus Microvirga. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:667-671. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 69, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:1529-1530.
    Notes:
    • Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: de Lajudie PM, Young JPW. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of rhizobia and agrobacteria Minutes of the closed meeting, Granada, 4 September 2017. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:3363-3368.
  • This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: de Lajudie P, Young JPW. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Rhizobia and Agrobacteria Minutes of the meeting by video conference, 11 July 2018. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:1835-1840.
  • This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: de Lajudie P, Young JPW. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Rhizobia and Agrobacteria Minutes of the closed meeting by videoconference, 17 July 2019. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3563-3571.
  • This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: de Lajudie P, Martinez-Romero E. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Agrobacterium and Rhizobium Minutes of the meeting, 7 September 2014, Tenerife, Spain. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:516-520.
  • This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: de Lajudie PM, Young JPW. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee for the Taxonomy of Rhizobium and Agrobacterium Minutes of the meeting, Budapest, 25 August 2016. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2485-2494.
  • The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is -0.02779 (N = 7).

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 18
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 18
Total number of child taxa: 24

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Microvirga aerilata Weon et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microvirga aerophila Weon et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microvirga arabica Veyisoglu et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microvirga arsenatis Liu et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Microvirga brassicacearum" Jimenez-Gomez et al. 2019	not validly published
    "Microvirga calopogonii" Wang et al. 2019	not validly published
    Microvirga flavescens Zhang et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microvirga flocculans (Takeda et al. 2004) Weon et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microvirga guangxiensis Zhang et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microvirga indica Tapase et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microvirga lotononidis Ardley et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microvirga lupini Ardley et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microvirga makkahensis Veyisoglu et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microvirga massiliensis Caputo et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Microvirga mediterraneensis" Boxberger et al. 2021	not validly published
    Microvirga ossetica Safronova et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microvirga pakistanensis Amin et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Microvirga rosea" Huq 2018	not validly published
    Microvirga soli Dahal and Kim 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microvirga subterranea Kanso and Patel 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Microvirga thermotolerans" Li et al. 2020	not validly published
    "Microvirga tunisiensis" Msaddak et al. 2019	not validly published
    Microvirga vignae Radl et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microvirga zambiensis Ardley et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Methylobacteriaceae Garrity et al. 2006

Assigned by: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family IX. Methylobacteriaceae fam. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 567.

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