Name: Phascolarctobacterium Del Dot et al. 1994

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Phas.co.larc.to.bac.te’ri.um. N.L. masc. n. Phascolarctos, a scientific genus name, koala (Phascolarctos cinereus); N.L. neut. n. bacterium, rod; N.L. neut. n. Phascolarctobacterium, bacterium of koalas

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): neuter (stem: Phascolarctobacteri-), p^has-ko-lark-to-bak-TE-ri-um

Type species: Phascolarctobacterium faecium Del Dot et al. 1994

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Del Dot T, Osawa R, Stackebrandt E. Phascolarctobacterium faecium gen. nov., spec. nov., a novel taxon of the Sporomusa group of bacteria. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 1993; 16:380-384.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 48. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1994; 44:182-183.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 De Vos et al. (2009) assigned this genus to the family Veillonellaceae Rogosa 1971 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: 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. 🇧🇪
  • 🧕 Marchandin et al. (2010) assigned this genus to the order Selenomonadales Marchandin et al. 2010. Publication: Marchandin H, Teyssier C, Campos J, Jean-Pierre H, Roger F, Gay B, Carlier JP, Jumas-Bilak E. Negativicoccus succinicivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from human clinical samples, emended description of the family Veillonellaceae and description of Negativicutes classis nov., Selenomonadales ord. nov. and Acidaminococcaceae fam. nov. in the bacterial phylum Firmicutes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1271-1279. 🇫🇷
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Phascolarcobacterium"; "Phascolarctacterium"; "Phascolarctobacteriam"; "Phascolarctobacteriumfaecium"; "Phascolarctobaterium"; "Phoacolarctobacterium"; "Phuscolurctobucterium". — 🤨 This taxon name is occasionally used in plural form as: "Phascolarctobacteria".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 3; JCM: 2.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 6

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Phascolarctobacterium caballi" Gilroy et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Phascolarctobacterium equi" Gilroy et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name
    Phascolarctobacterium faecium Del Dot et al. 1994	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Candidatus Phascolarctobacterium stercoravium" Gilroy et al. 2021	not validly published	pro-correct name
    Phascolarctobacterium succinatutens Watanabe et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Phascolarctobacterium wakonense Shigeno et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Acidaminococcaceae Marchandin et al. 2010

Assigned by: Campbell C, Adeolu M, Gupta RS. Genome-based taxonomic framework for the class Negativicutes: division of the class Negativicutes into the orders Selenomonadales emend., Acidaminococcales ord. nov. and Veillonellales ord. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:3203-3215. 🇨🇦

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