Name: Polymorphobacter Fukuda et al. 2014

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Po.ly.mor.pho.bac’ter. Gr. masc. adj. polymorphos, multiform; N.L. masc. n. bacter, rod; N.L. masc. n. Polymorphobacter, a polymorphic rod

Gender, pronunciation: masculine (stem: Polymorphobacter-), po-ly-mor-p^ho-BAK-ter

Type species: Polymorphobacter multimanifer Fukuda et al. 2014

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Fukuda W, Chino Y, Araki S, Kondo Y, Imanaka H, Kanai T, Atomi H, Imanaka T. Polymorphobacter multimanifer gen. nov., sp. nov., a polymorphic bacterium isolated from Antarctic white rock. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2034-2040.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 64, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2930-2931.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Jia et al. 2015 Jia L, Feng X, Zheng Z, Han L, Hou X, Lu Z, Lv J. Polymorphobacter fuscus sp. nov., isolated from permafrost soil, and emended description of the genus Polymorphobacter. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:3920-3925. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 65, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:527-529.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
  • Kim et al. 2016 Kim M, Kang O, Zhang Y, Ren L, Chang X, Jiang F, Fang C, Zheng C, Peng F. Sphingoaurantiacus polygranulatus gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from high-Arctic tundra soil, and emended descriptions of the genera Sandarakinorhabdus, Polymorphobacter and Rhizorhabdus and the species Sandarakinorhabdus limnophila, Rhizorhabdus argentea and Sphingomonas wittichii. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:91-100. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1607-1611.
    Notes:
    • 😢 The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. Contrasting the term "chemotaxonomic" with "phenotypic" is not recommended. Using the term "phylogenetic data" (or equivalent) for sequence data is not advocated. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Fukuda et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Sphingomonadaceae Kosako et al. 2000. Publication: Fukuda W, Chino Y, Araki S, Kondo Y, Imanaka H, Kanai T, Atomi H, Imanaka T. Polymorphobacter multimanifer gen. nov., sp. nov., a polymorphic bacterium isolated from Antarctic white rock. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2034-2040.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Morphobacter"; "Ymorphobacter".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 3; CGMCC: 3; KCTC: 3; DSM: 1; ATCC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 5
Total number of child taxa: 5

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Polymorphobacter arshaanensis Phurbu et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Polymorphobacter fuscus Jia et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Polymorphobacter glacialis Xing et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Polymorphobacter megasporae Noh et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Polymorphobacter multimanifer Fukuda et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Sphingosinicellaceae Hördt et al. 2020

Assigned by: Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468.

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