Name: Piscinibacter Stackebrandt et al. 2009

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Pi.sci.ni.bac.ter. L. fem. n. piscina, a pond, cistern, tank, reservoir; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Piscinibacter, a rod from a pond

Gender: masculine (stem: Piscinibacter-)

Type species: Piscinibacter aquaticus (Song and Cho 2007) Stackebrandt et al. 2009

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Stackebrandt E, Verbarg S, Fruhling A, Busse HJ, Tindall BJ. Dissection of the genus Methylibium: reclassification of Methylibium fulvum as Rhizobacter fulvus comb. nov., Methylibium aquaticum as Piscinibacter aquaticus gen. nov., comb. nov. and Methylibium subsaxonicum as Rivibacter subsaxonicus gen. nov., comb. nov. and emended descriptions of the genera Rhizobacter and Methylibium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2552-2560.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:3-4.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Albitalea" Khan et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, not validly published

• Emendations:
  • Cho et al. 2016 Cho SH, Lee HJ, Jeon CO. Piscinibacter defluvii sp. nov., isolated from a sewage treatment plant, and emended description of the genus Piscinibacter Stackebrandt et al. 2009. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4839-4843. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:179-182.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
  • Liu et al. 2022 Liu Y, Du J, Pei T, Du H, Feng GD, Zhu H. Genome-based taxonomic classification of the closest-to-Comamonadaceae group supports a new family Sphaerotilaceae fam. nov. and taxonomic revisions. Syst Appl Microbiol 2022; 45:126352. Oren A, Göker M. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 37. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5696.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 2 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Stackebrandt et al. (2009) assigned this genus to the order Burkholderiales Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Stackebrandt E, Verbarg S, Fruhling A, Busse HJ, Tindall BJ. Dissection of the genus Methylibium: reclassification of Methylibium fulvum as Rhizobacter fulvus comb. nov., Methylibium aquaticum as Piscinibacter aquaticus gen. nov., comb. nov. and Methylibium subsaxonicum as Rivibacter subsaxonicus gen. nov., comb. nov. and emended descriptions of the genera Rhizobacter and Methylibium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2552-2560.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Methylibium Nakatsu et al. 2006. Publication: Song J, Cho JC. Methylibium aquaticum sp. nov., a betaproteobacterium isolated from a eutrophic freshwater pond. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2125-2128.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Piscinobacter".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: NBRC: 5; JCM: 3; KCTC: 2; DSM: 1; KCCM: 1; NCTC: 1; BCC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 7
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 7
Total number of child taxa: 8

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Piscinibacter aquaticus (Song and Cho 2007) Stackebrandt et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Piscinibacter caeni Chen et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Piscinibacter defluvii Cho et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Piscinibacter gummiphilus (Imai et al. 2016) Liu et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Piscinibacter koreensis (Chaudhary et al. 2022) Lu and Chen 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Piscinibacter lacus" Kim et al. 2022	not validly published	synonym (and no standing)
    Piscinibacter sakaiensis (Tanasupawat et al. 2016) Liu et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Piscinibacter terrae Lu and Chen 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Sphaerotilaceae Liu et al. 2023

Assigned by: Lu H, Chen L. Ideonella margarita sp. nov., Ideonella lacteola sp. nov., Pseudaquabacterium inlustre sp. nov. and Pseudaquabacterium rugosum sp. nov., isolated from streams in China and re-examining the taxonomic status of all the genera within the family Sphaerotilaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6495.

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