Genus Photobacterium

Name: Photobacterium Beijerinck 1889 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Gr. n. phôs -otos, light; L. neut. n. bacterium, rod or staff and, in biology, a bacterium (so called because the first ones observed were rod-shaped); N.L. neut. n. Photobacterium, light (-producing) bacterium

Gender: neuter

Type species: Photobacterium phosphoreum (Cohn 1878) Beijerinck 1889 (Approved Lists 1980)

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Beijerinck MW. Le Photobacterium luminosum, Bactérie lumineuse de la Mer du Nord. Archives Néerlandaises des Sciences Exactes et Naturelles 1889; 23:401-427.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

Notes:
- Breed et al. (1957) assigned this genus to the family Pseudomonadaceae Winslow et al. 1917 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Parker CD. Genus V. Thiobacillus Beijerinck 1904. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1957, p. 83-88.
- The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Micrococcus Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Cohn F. Letter to J. Penn which describes Micrococcus phosphoreum. Versameling van stucken betreffende het geneeskundig staats toerzich 1878; 1878:126-130.
- This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Photobacter".
- On the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names and on the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names (Amended Edition), the page numbers of the effective publication are cited as 401-415.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 35
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 39
Total number of child taxa: 44

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Photobacterium aestuarii Lo et al. 2014	validly published	correct name
Photobacterium alginatilyticum Wang et al. 2017	validly published	correct name
Photobacterium andalusiense Labella et al. 2019	validly published	correct name
Photobacterium angustum Reichelt et al. 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name
Photobacterium aphoticum Lucena et al. 2011	validly published	correct name
Photobacterium aplysiae Seo et al. 2005	validly published	correct name
Photobacterium aquae Liu et al. 2014	validly published	correct name
Photobacterium aquimaris Yoshizawa et al. 2009	validly published	correct name
"Photobacterium atrarenae" Kim et al. 2011	not validly published
Photobacterium carnosum Hilgarth et al. 2018	validly published	correct name
Photobacterium chitinilyticum Wang et al. 2019	validly published	correct name
Photobacterium damsela (sic) (Love et al. 1982) Smith et al. 1991	misspelling	synonym
Photobacterium damselae corrig. (Love et al. 1982) Smith et al. 1991	validly published	correct name
Photobacterium fischeri (Beijerinck 1889) Reichelt and Baumann 1973 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	synonym
"Photobacterium fischeri" Beijerinck 1889	not validly published
Photobacterium frigidiphilum Seo et al. 2005	validly published	correct name
Photobacterium gaetbulicola Kim et al. 2010	validly published	correct name
Photobacterium galatheae Machado et al. 2015	validly published	correct name
Photobacterium ganghwense Park et al. 2006	validly published	correct name
Photobacterium halotolerans Rivas et al. 2006	validly published	correct name
Photobacterium histaminum Okuzumi et al. 1994	validly published	synonym
Photobacterium iliopiscarium (Onarheim et al. 1995) Urakawa et al. 1999	validly published	correct name
Photobacterium indicum (Johnson and Weisrock 1969) Xie and Yokota 2004	validly published, illegitimate name	synonym
Photobacterium indicum (Johnson and Weisrock 1969) Ivanova et al. 2004	validly published	correct name
Photobacterium jeanii Chimetto et al. 2010	validly published	correct name
Photobacterium kishitanii Ast et al. 2007	validly published	correct name
Photobacterium leiognathi Boisvert et al. 1967 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name
Photobacterium lipolyticum Yoon et al. 2005	validly published	correct name
Photobacterium logei (ex Bang et al. 1978) Harwood et al. 1980	validly published	synonym
"Photobacterium lucens" Enciso-Ibarra et al. 2020	not validly published
Photobacterium lutimaris Jung et al. 2007	validly published	correct name
Photobacterium malacitanum Labella et al. 2019	validly published	correct name
"Photobacterium marinum" Srinivas et al. 2013	not validly published
Photobacterium panuliri Deep et al. 2015	validly published	correct name
Photobacterium phosphoreum (Cohn 1878) Beijerinck 1889 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name
Photobacterium piscicola Figge et al. 2015	validly published	correct name
Photobacterium profundum Nogi et al. 1998	validly published	correct name
Photobacterium proteolyticum Li et al. 2017	validly published	correct name
Photobacterium rosenbergii Thompson et al. 2005	validly published	correct name
Photobacterium salinisoli Li et al. 2019	validly published	correct name
Photobacterium sanctipauli Moreira et al. 2015	validly published	correct name
Photobacterium sanguinicancri Gomez-Gil et al. 2016	validly published	correct name
Photobacterium swingsii Gomez-Gil et al. 2011	validly published	correct name
Photobacterium toruni Labella et al. 2017	validly published	correct name

Parent taxon: Vibrionaceae Véron 1965 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Smith SK, Sutton DC, Fuerst JA, Reichelt JL. Evaluation of the genus Listonella and reassignment of Listonella damsela (Love et al.) MacDonell and Colwell to the genus Photobacterium as Photobacterium damsela comb. nov. with an emended description. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:529-534.

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