Genus Parerythrobacter

Name: Parerythrobacter Xu et al. 2020

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: Par.e.ry.thro.bac’ter. Gr. prep. para, beside, alongside of, near, like; N.L. masc. n. Erythrobacter, a genus name; N.L. masc. n. Parerythrobacter, near or like Erythrobacter

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Parerythrobacter-), par-e-ry-t^hro-BAK-ter

Type species: Parerythrobacter jejuensis (Yoon et al. 2013) Xu et al. 2020

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Xu L, Sun C, Fang C, Oren A, Xu XW. Genomic-based taxonomic classification of the family Erythrobacteraceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4470-4495. 🇨🇳

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 70, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5602-5608.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Xamxidin et al. 2023 Xamxidin M, Dong H, Wang JY, Qu W, Xu L, Wu M. Parerythrobacter lacustris sp. nov., a novel member of the family Erythrobacteraceae isolated from an inland alpine lake. Arch Microbiol 2023; 205:279. 🇨🇳 Oren A, Göker M. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 39. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6172.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Erythrobacter Shiba and Simidu 1982. Publication: Yoon BJ, Lee DH, Oh DC. Erythrobacter jejuensis sp. nov., isolated from seawater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1421-1426. 🇰🇷
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: KCTC: 5; GDMCC: 2; JCM: 1; MCCC: 1; NBRC: 1.
  • 🧍 The distinct name Altererythrobacter from the same publication has a similar spelling. — 🧍 The distinct name Pelagerythrobacter from the same publication has a similar spelling. Publication: Angell RC, Freund GE, Willett P. Automatic spelling correction using a trigram similarity measure. Information Processing and Management 1983; 19:255-261.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 4
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 4
Total number of child taxa: 5

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Parerythrobacter aestuarii" Dong et al. 2023	not validly published	preferred name
    Parerythrobacter aurantius Liu et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Parerythrobacter jejuensis (Yoon et al. 2013) Xu et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Parerythrobacter lacustris Xamxidin et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Parerythrobacter lutipelagi (Lee 2019) Xu et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Erythrobacteraceae Lee et al. 2005

Assigned by: Xu L, Sun C, Fang C, Oren A, Xu XW. Genomic-based taxonomic classification of the family Erythrobacteraceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4470-4495. 🇨🇳

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