Name: Pelotomaculum Imachi et al. 2002

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Pe.lo.to.ma’cu.lum. Gr. masc. n. pêlos, dark-coloured, hence anaerobic mud; L. neut. n. tomaculum, sausage; N.L. neut. n. Pelotomaculum, sausage-shaped bacteria living in anaerobic environments

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): neuter (stem: Pelotomacul-), pe-lo-to-MA-ku-lum

Type species: Pelotomaculum thermopropionicum Imachi et al. 2002

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Imachi H, Sekiguchi Y, Kamagata Y, Hanada S, Ohashi A, Harada H. Pelotomaculum thermopropionicum gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, thermophilic, syntrophic propionate-oxidizing bacterium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1729-1735. 🇯🇵

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 52, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:3-5.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • de Bok et al. 2005 de Bok FA, Harmsen HJ, Plugge CM, de Vries MC, Akkermans AD, de Vos WM, Stams AJ. The first true obligately syntrophic propionate-oxidizing bacterium, Pelotomaculum schinkii sp. nov., co-cultured with Methanospirillum hungatei, and emended description of the genus Pelotomaculum. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1697-1703. 🇳🇱 Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 55, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:2239-2241.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
  • Qiu et al. 2006 Qiu YL, Sekiguchi Y, Hanada S, Imachi H, Tseng IC, Cheng SS, Ohashi A, Harada H, Kamagata Y. Pelotomaculum terephthalicum sp. nov. and Pelotomaculum isophthalicum sp. nov.: two anaerobic bacteria that degrade phthalate isomers in syntrophic association with hydrogenotrophic methanogens. Arch Microbiol 2006; 185:172-182. 🇯🇵 Euzeby JP. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 5. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:4-5.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 2 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family "Pelotomaculaceae" Hao et al. 2020. Publication: Hao L, Michaelsen TY, Singleton CM, Dottorini G, Kirkegaard RH, Albertsen M, Nielsen PH, Dueholm MS. Novel syntrophic bacteria in full-scale anaerobic digesters revealed by genome-centric metatranscriptomics. ISME J 2020; 14:906-918. 🇩🇰
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Pelotomaculaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺
  • 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Pelotomaculaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺
  • 🧕 Stackebrandt (2014) assigned this genus to the family Desulfotomaculaceae Stackebrandt 2020. Publication: Stackebrandt E. The emended family Peptococcaceae and description of the families Desulfitobacteriaceae, Desulfotomaculaceae, and Thermincolaceae. In: Rosenberg E, DeLong E, Lory S, Stacke- brandt E, Thompson F (eds), The Prokaryotes., Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, 2014, p. 286-290. 🇩🇪
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Jbtomaculum".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Qiu et al. (2006). 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 phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is -0.08741 (N = 17).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 6; DSM: 5; ATCC: 3; NBRC: 2.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 5
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 5
Total number of child taxa: 7

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Pelotomaculum isophthalicicum corrig. Qiu et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pelotomaculum isophthalicum Qiu et al. 2006	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    Pelotomaculum propionicicum Imachi et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pelotomaculum schinkii de Bok et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pelotomaculum terephthalicicum corrig. Qiu et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pelotomaculum terephthalicum Qiu et al. 2006	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    Pelotomaculum thermopropionicum Imachi et al. 2002	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Peptococcaceae Rogosa 1971 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Ludwig W, Schleifer K-H, Whitman WB. Class I. Bacilli class nov. In: De Vos P, Garrity GM, Jones D, Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Rainey FA, K.-H. S, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 3 (The Firmicutes), Springer, New York, 2009, p. 19-20. 🇧🇪

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