Name: Pelomonas Xie and Yokota 2005

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Pe.lo’mo.nas. Gr. masc. n. pêlos, mud; L. fem. n. monas, a unit, monad; N.L. fem. n. Pelomonas, a monad isolated from mud

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Pelomonad-), pe-LO-mo-nas

Type species: Pelomonas saccharophila (Doudoroff 1940) Xie and Yokota 2005

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Xie CH, Yokota A. Reclassification of Alcaligenes latus strains IAM 12599T and IAM 12664 and Pseudomonas saccharophila as Azohydromonas lata gen. nov., comb. nov., Azohydromonas australica sp. nov. and Pelomonas saccharophila gen. nov., comb. nov., respectively. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:2419-2425.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 55, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:319-321.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Roseateles Suyama et al. 1999

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Mitsuaria Amakata et al. 2005	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Kinneretia Gomila et al. 2010	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Paucibacter Rapala et al. 2005	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Roseateles Suyama et al. 1999	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Emendations:
  • Sisinthy and Gundlapally 2020 Sisinthy S, Gundlapally SR. Mitsuaria chitinivorans sp. nov. a potential candidate for bioremediation: emended description of the genera Mitsuaria, Roseateles and Pelomonas. Arch Microbiol 2020; 202:1839-1848.
    Notes:
    • 🧍 As of 2020-09-20 this emendation was not yet included in an IJSEM List of Changes in Taxonomic Opinion.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Xie and Yokota (2005) assigned this genus to the family Comamonadaceae Willems et al. 1991. Publication: Xie CH, Yokota A. Reclassification of Alcaligenes latus strains IAM 12599T and IAM 12664 and Pseudomonas saccharophila as Azohydromonas lata gen. nov., comb. nov., Azohydromonas australica sp. nov. and Pelomonas saccharophila gen. nov., comb. nov., respectively. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:2419-2425.
  • 🚂 For the type species of this genus another name is in use, which is affiliated with the genus Roseateles Suyama et al. 1999. Publication: Liu Y, Du J, Pei T, Du H, Feng GD, Zhu H. Genome-based taxonomic classification of the closest-to-Comamonadaceae group supports a new family Sphaerotilaceae fam. nov. and taxonomic revisions. Syst Appl Microbiol 2022; 45:126352.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Pelomomas"; "Pelomons"; "Pleomonas".
  • ❗ Pelomonas is the correct name instead if this genus is regarded as a separate genus (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another genus whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: KCTC: 7; GDMCC: 7; CCUG: 3; TBRC: 2; JCM: 2; KACC: 2; CECT: 2; ATCC: 1; NBRC: 1; LMG: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 12
Total number of child taxa: 12

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Pelomonas aquatica Gomila et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	orphaned species
    Pelomonas baiyunensis Lu et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	orphaned species
    Pelomonas candidula Lu et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	orphaned species
    Pelomonas caseinilytica (So et al. 2025) Lu et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Pelomonas cellulosilytica (So et al. 2025) Lu et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Pelomonas dachongensis Lu et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	orphaned species
    Pelomonas lactea Lu et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	orphaned species
    Pelomonas margarita Lu et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	orphaned species
    Pelomonas nitida Lu et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	orphaned species
    Pelomonas parva Lu et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	orphaned species
    Pelomonas puraquae Gomila et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Pelomonas saccharophila (Doudoroff 1940) Xie and Yokota 2005	validly published under the ICNP	synonym

Parent taxon: Sphaerotilaceae Liu et al. 2023

Assigned by: Lu H, Chen L. Ideonella margarita sp. nov., Ideonella lacteola sp. nov., Pseudaquabacterium inlustre sp. nov. and Pseudaquabacterium rugosum sp. nov., isolated from streams in China and re-examining the taxonomic status of all the genera within the family Sphaerotilaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6495.

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