Genus Pararhodobacter

Name: Pararhodobacter Foesel et al. 2013

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Pa.ra.rho.do.bac’ter. Gr. prep. para, next to, resembling; N.L. masc. n. Rhodobacter, a bacterial genus; N.L. masc. n. Pararhodobacter, next to Rhodobacter

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Pararhodobacter-), pa-ra-r^ho-do-BAK-ter

Type species: Pararhodobacter aggregans Foesel et al. 2013

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Foesel BU, Drake HL, Schramm A. Defluviimonas denitrificans gen. nov., sp. nov., and Pararhodobacter aggregans gen. nov., sp. nov., non-phototrophic Rhodobacteraceae from the biofilter of a marine aquaculture. Syst Appl Microbiol 2011; 34:498-502. 🇩🇰

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 149. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1-5.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Emendations:
- Wang et al. 2019 Wang XL, Zhao YN, Wang K, Du ZJ. Pararhodobacter oceanensis sp. nov., isolated from marine intertidal sediment and emended description of the genus Pararhodobacter. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:866-870. 🇨🇳 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.
- Zhang et al. 2019 Zhang W, Chen C, Yuan Y, Su D, Ding L, Epstein SS, He S. Pararhodobacter marinus sp. nov., a bacterium isolated from marine sediment in the East China Sea and emended description of the genus Pararhodobacter. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:3293-3298. 🇺🇸 Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 69, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:6-8.
  Notes:
  - ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

Notes:
- 🧕 Fösel et al. (2011) assigned this genus to the family Rhodobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Foesel BU, Drake HL, Schramm A. Defluviimonas denitrificans gen. nov., sp. nov., and Pararhodobacter aggregans gen. nov., sp. nov., non-phototrophic Rhodobacteraceae from the biofilter of a marine aquaculture. Syst Appl Microbiol 2011; 34:498-502. 🇩🇰
- 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Zhang et al. (2020). 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: MCCC: 4; KCTC: 4; DSM: 1; ATCC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 4
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
Pararhodobacter aggregans Foesel et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Pararhodobacter marinus Lai et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Pararhodobacter marinus Zhang et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name, later homonym	synonym
Pararhodobacter oceanensis Wang et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Pararhodobacter zhoushanensis Zhang et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Paracoccaceae Liang et al. 2022

Assigned by: Goker M. Filling the gaps: missing taxon names at the ranks of class, order and family. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5638. 🇩🇪

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