Genus Paracraurococcus

Name: Paracraurococcus Saitoh et al. 1998

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Pa.ra.crau.ro.coc’cus. Gr. prep. para, like, along side of; Gr. masc. adj. kraûros, fragile; N.L. masc. n. coccus, a grain, berry; N.L. masc. n. Paracraurococcus, coccus like Craurococcus

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Paracraurococc-), pa-ra-kra͡u-ro-KOK-kus

Type species: Paracraurococcus ruber Saitoh et al. 1998

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Saitoh S, Suzuki T, Nishimura Y. Proposal of Craurococcus roseus gen. nov., sp. nov. and Paracraurococcus ruber gen. nov., sp. nov., novel aerobic bacteriochlorophyll a-containing bacteria from soil. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:1043-1047. 🇯🇵

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 48, part 3 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:1085-1087.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Emendations:
- Kingkaew et al. 2024 Kingkaew E, Kato S, Iino T, Itoh T, Ohkuma M, Phongsopitanun W, Tanasupawat S. Paracraurococcus lichenis sp. nov., isolated from lichen in Thailand. Arch Microbiol 2024; 206:413. 🇹🇭 Oren A, Göker M. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 41. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6561.
  Notes:
  - ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

Notes:
- 🧕 Degli-Esposti et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Roseomonadaceae Degli Esposti et al. 2024. Publication: Degli Esposti M, Guerrero G, Rogel MA, Issotta F, Rojas-Villalobos C, Quatrini R, Martinez-Romero E. The phylogeny of Acetobacteraceae: photosynthetic traits and deranged respiratory enzymes. Microbiol Spectr 2023; 11:e0057523. 🇲🇽
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Paracaraurococcus".
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 2; NBRC: 1; CIP: 1; TISTR: 1.
- 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1". — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.

Subdivision:

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

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Paracraurococcus lichenis Kingkaew et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Paracraurococcus ruber Saitoh et al. 1998	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Acetobacteraceae (ex Henrici 1939) Gillis and De Ley 1980

Assigned by: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Class I. Alphaproteobacteria class. 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. 1. 🇺🇸

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