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

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

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

Effective 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.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in the literature 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: 42

• 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 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) Ivanova et al. 2004	validly published	correct name
    Photobacterium indicum (Johnson and Weisrock 1969) Xie and Yokota 2004	validly published	synonym
    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 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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