Name: Pelomicrobium Slobodkina et al. 2020

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Pe.lo.mi.cro’bi.um. Gr. masc. n. pêlos, mud or clay; N.L. neut. n. microbium, microbe; N.L. neut. n. Pelomicrobium, a mud-inhabiting microorganism

Gender, pronunciation: neuter (stem: Pelomicrobi-), pe-lo-mi-KRO-bi-um

Type species: Pelomicrobium methylotrophicum Slobodkina et al. 2020

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Slobodkina GB, Merkel AY, Novikov AA, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Slobodkin AI. Pelomicrobium methylotrophicum gen. nov., sp. nov. a moderately thermophilic, facultatively anaerobic, lithoautotrophic and methylotrophic bacterium isolated from a terrestrial mud volcano. Extremophiles 2020; 24:177-185.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 193. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:2960-2966.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Ludwig et al. (2021) assigned this genus to the class "Hydrogenophylalia". Publication: Ludwig W, Viver T, Westram R, Francisco Gago J, Bustos-Caparros E, Knittel K, Amann R, Rossello-Mora R. Release LTP_12_2020, featuring a new ARB alignment and improved 16S rRNA tree for prokaryotic type strains. Syst Appl Microbiol 2021; 44:126218.
  • 🧕 Slobodkina et al. (2020) assigned this genus to the class Hydrogenophilalia Boden et al. 2017. Publication: Slobodkina GB, Merkel AY, Novikov AA, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Slobodkin AI. Pelomicrobium methylotrophicum gen. nov., sp. nov. a moderately thermophilic, facultatively anaerobic, lithoautotrophic and methylotrophic bacterium isolated from a terrestrial mud volcano. Extremophiles 2020; 24:177-185.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: KCTC: 1; VKM: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Pelomicrobium methylotrophicum Slobodkina et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: [Hydrogenophilia, not assigned to family]

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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Record number: 556