Name: Nitratireductor Labbé et al. 2004

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ni.tra.ti.re.duc’tor. N.L. masc. n. nitras, nitrate; L. inf. v. reducere, to bring back, reduce; N.L. masc. n. Nitratireductor, nitrate-reducing bacterium

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Nitratireductor-), ni-tra-ti-re-DUK-tor

Type species: Nitratireductor aquibiodomus Labbé et al. 2004

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Labbe N, Parent S, Villemur R. Nitratireductor aquibiodomus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel alpha-proteobacterium from the marine denitrification system of the Montreal Biodome (Canada). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:269-273. 🇨🇦

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 54, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:633-634.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Jang et al. 2011 Jang GI, Hwang CY, Cho BC. Nitratireductor aquimarinus sp. nov., isolated from a culture of the diatom Skeletonema costatum, and emended description of the genus Nitratireductor. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:2676-2681. 🇰🇷 Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 61, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:261-262.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Hördt et al. (2020) assigned this genus to the family Phyllobacteriaceae Mergaert and Swings 2006. 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. 🇩🇪
  • 🧕 Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Phyllobacteriaceae Mergaert and Swings 2006. Publication: Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO. The SILVA and “all-species living tree project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; 42(D1):D643-D648. 🇩🇪
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Lai et al. (2011). 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: KCTC: 9; JCM: 8; MCCC: 6; LMG: 4; DSM: 3; CCTCC: 3; NCCB: 2; CGMCC: 2; KACC: 2; MTCC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 12
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 12
Total number of child taxa: 18

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Nitratireductor aestuarii Ou et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nitratireductor alexandrii Jiang et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nitratireductor aquibiodomus Labbé et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nitratireductor aquimarinus Jang et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Nitratireductor arenosus" Baek et al. 2020	not validly published	preferred name
    Nitratireductor basaltis Kim et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nitratireductor indicus Lai et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nitratireductor kimnyeongensis Kang et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nitratireductor lacus Yu et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Nitratireductor lucknowense" Manickam et al. 2012	not validly published	preferred name
    "Nitratireductor luteus" Yang et al. 2023	not validly published	preferred name
    Nitratireductor mangrovi Ye et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nitratireductor pacificus Lai et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nitratireductor rhodophyticola Kim et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Nitratireductor shengliensis" Pan et al. 2014	not validly published	preferred name
    "Nitratireductor soli" Chen et al. 2015	not validly published	preferred name
    Nitratireductor thuwalensis corrig. Marasco et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nitratireductor thuwali Marasco et al. 2023	inaccurate spelling	misspelling

Parent taxon: Bartonellaceae Gieszczykiewicz 1939 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: diCenzo GC, Yang Y, Young JPW, Kuzmanovic N. Refining the taxonomy of the order Hyphomicrobiales (Rhizobiales) based on whole genome comparisons of over 130 type strains. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6328. 🇨🇦

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