Name: Nitrospirillum Lin et al. 2015

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ni.tro.spi.ril’lum. Gr. neut. n. nitron, soda; N.L. neut. dim. n. spirillum, spiral; N.L. neut. dim. n. Nitrospirillum, soda spiral

Gender: neuter (stem: Nitrospirill-)

Type species: Nitrospirillum amazonense (Magalhães et al. 1984) Lin et al. 2015

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Lin SY, Hameed A, Shen FT, Liu YC, Hsu YH, Shahina M, Lai WA, Young CC. Description of Niveispirillum fermenti gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a fermentor in Taiwan, transfer of Azospirillum irakense (1989) as Niveispirillum irakense comb. nov., and reclassification of Azospirillum amazonense (1983) as Nitrospirillum amazonense gen. nov. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2014; 105:1149-1162.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 165. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:2777-2783.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Chung et al. 2015 Chung EJ, Park TS, Kim KH, Jeon CO, Lee HI, Chang WS, Aslam Z, Chung YR. Nitrospirillum irinus sp. nov., a diazotrophic bacterium isolated from the rhizosphere soil of Iris and emended description of the genus Nitrospirillum. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2015; 108:721-729. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 23. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:7-8.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Lin et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Rhodospirillaceae Pfennig and Trüper 1971 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Lin SY, Hameed A, Shen FT, Liu YC, Hsu YH, Shahina M, Lai WA, Young CC. Description of Niveispirillum fermenti gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a fermentor in Taiwan, transfer of Azospirillum irakense (1989) as Niveispirillum irakense comb. nov., and reclassification of Azospirillum amazonense (1983) as Nitrospirillum amazonense gen. nov. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2014; 105:1149-1162.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Azospirillum Tarrand et al. 1979 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Magalhaes FM, Baldani JI, Souto SM, Kuykendall JR, Dobereiner J. A new acid-tolerant Azospirillum species. An. Acad. Brasil. Ciênc. 1983; 55:417-430.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Nitrosprillum".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Chung et al. (2015). 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: 5; ATCC: 2; NRRL: 1; BCRC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 4

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Nitrospirillum amazonense (Magalhães et al. 1984) Lin et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nitrospirillum iridis corrig. Chung et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nitrospirillum irinus Chung et al. 2016	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    Nitrospirillum viridazoti Baldani et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Azospirillaceae 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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