Genus Phaeobacter

Name: Phaeobacter Martens et al. 2006

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Phae.o.bac’ter. Gr. masc. adj. phaios, dark, brown; N.L. masc. n. bacter, rod; N.L. masc. n. Phaeobacter, a brown rod

Gender: masculine (stem: Phaeobacter-)

Type species: Phaeobacter gallaeciensis (Ruiz-Ponte et al. 1998) Martens et al. 2006

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Martens T, Heidorn T, Pukall R, Simon M, Tindall BJ, Brinkhoff T. Reclassification of Roseobacter gallaeciensis Ruiz-Ponte et al. 1998 as Phaeobacter gallaeciensis gen. nov., comb. nov., description of Phaeobacter inhibens sp. nov., reclassification of Ruegeria algicola (Lafay et al. 1995) Uchino et al. 1999 as Marinovum algicola gen. nov., comb. nov., and emended descriptions of the genera Roseobacter, Ruegeria and Leisingera. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1293-1304.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 56, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:2029-2030.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Nautella Vandecandelaere et al. 2009	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Emendations:
- Yoon et al. 2007 Yoon JH, Kang SJ, Lee SY, Oh TK. Phaeobacter daeponensis sp. nov., isolated from a tidal flat of the Yellow Sea in Korea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:856-861. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1374-1375.
  Notes:
  - ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
  - 😢 The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. Contrasting the term "chemotaxonomic" with "phenotypic" is not recommended. Using the term "phylogenetic data" (or equivalent) for sequence data is not advocated. Whether taxa can have "members" is debatable. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details.
- Breider et al. 2014 Breider S, Scheuner C, Schumann P, Fiebig A, Petersen J, Pradella S, Klenk HP, Brinkhoff T, Goker M. Genome-scale data suggest reclassifications in the Leisingera-Phaeobacter cluster including proposals for Sedimentitalea gen. nov. and Pseudophaeobacter gen. nov. Front Microbiol 2014; 5:416. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 21. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:7-10.
  Notes:
  - ⊖ Emendation accompanied by the removal of 5 species from the genus.
- Wirth and Whitman 2018 Wirth JS, Whitman WB. Phylogenomic analyses of a clade within the roseobacter group suggest taxonomic reassignments of species of the genera Aestuariivita, Citreicella, Loktanella, Nautella, Pelagibaca, Ruegeria, Thalassobius, Thiobacimonas and Tropicibacter, and the proposal of six novel genera. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:2393-2411. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 68, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:3077-3079.
  Notes:
  - ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

Notes:
- 🧕 Breider et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Rhodobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Breider S, Scheuner C, Schumann P, Fiebig A, Petersen J, Pradella S, Klenk HP, Brinkhoff T, Goker M. Genome-scale data suggest reclassifications in the Leisingera-Phaeobacter cluster including proposals for Sedimentitalea gen. nov. and Pseudophaeobacter gen. nov. Front Microbiol 2014; 5:416.
- 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Roseobacter Shiba 1991. Publication: Ruiz-Ponte C, Cilia V, Lambert C, Nicolas JL. Roseobacter gallaeciensis sp. nov., a new marine bacterium isolated from rearings and collectors of the scallop Pecten maximus. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:537-542.
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Phaeobacer".
- 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Vandecandelaere et al. (2009), Breider et al. (2017). 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: DSM: 9; JCM: 4; KCTC: 2; CECT: 2; CCUG: 2; CIP: 2; IFO: 1; CGMCC: 1; NBRC: 1; ATCC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 5
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 10
Total number of child taxa: 11

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Phaeobacter aquaemixtae Park et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
Phaeobacter arcticus Zhang et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
Phaeobacter caeruleus Vandecandelaere et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
Phaeobacter daeponensis Yoon et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
Phaeobacter gallaeciensis (Ruiz-Ponte et al. 1998) Martens et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Phaeobacter inhibens Martens et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Phaeobacter italicus (Vandecandelaere et al. 2009) Wirth and Whitman 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Phaeobacter leonis Gaboyer et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
"Phaeobacter marinintestinus" Lee et al. 2015	not validly published	synonym (and no standing)
Phaeobacter piscinae Sonnenschein et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Phaeobacter porticola Breider et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Roseobacteraceae Liang et al. 2021

Assigned by: Liang KYH, Orata FD, Boucher YF, Case RJ. Roseobacters in a Sea of Poly- and Paraphyly: Whole Genome-Based Taxonomy of the Family Rhodobacteraceae and the Proposal for the Split of the "Roseobacter Clade" Into a Novel Family, Roseobacteraceae fam. nov. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:683109.

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Genus Phaeobacter