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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Genus Philodulcilactobacillus

Name: Philodulcilactobacillus Kouya et al. 2023

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Phi.lo.dul.ci.lac.to.ba.cil’lus. N.L. adj. philus -a -um, friend, loving; from Gr. adj. philos -ê -on, loving; L. masc./fem. adj. dulcis, sweet; N.L. masc. n. Lactobacillus, a bacterial genus; N.L. masc. n. Philodulcilactobacillus, a lactobacillus that can grow under high sugar concentrations

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Philodulcilactobacill-), phi-lo-dul-ki-lak-to-ba-KIL-lus

Type species: Philodulcilactobacillus myokonensis corrig. Kouya et al. 2023

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Kouya T, Ishiyama Y, Ohashi S, Kumakubo R, Yamazaki T, Otaki T. Philodulcilactobacillus myokoensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a fructophilic, acidophilic, and agar-phobic lactic acid bacterium isolated from fermented vegetable extracts. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0286677. 🇯🇵

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 214. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:6080.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

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: 2

Parent taxon: Lactobacillaceae Winslow et al. 1917 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Kouya T, Ishiyama Y, Ohashi S, Kumakubo R, Yamazaki T, Otaki T. Philodulcilactobacillus myokoensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a fructophilic, acidophilic, and agar-phobic lactic acid bacterium isolated from fermented vegetable extracts. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0286677. 🇯🇵

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Record number: 39000
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