Genus Porcipelethomonas

Name: Porcipelethomonas Hitch et al. 2025

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Por.ci.pe.le.tho’mo.nas. L. masc. n. porcus, a piglet; Gr. masc. n. pelethos, dung; L. fem. n. monas, a monad; N.L. fem. n. Porcipelethomonas, a microbe frequently occurring in the faeces of pigs

Gender: feminine (stem: Porcipelethomonad-)

Type species: Porcipelethomonas ammoniilytica Hitch et al. 2025

Effective publication: Hitch TCA, Riedel T, Oren A, Overmann J, Lawley TD, Clavel T. Automated analysis of genomic sequences facilitates high-throughput and comprehensive description of bacteria. ISME Commun 2021; 1:16.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 221. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6562.

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: 1

Parent taxon: Oscillospiraceae Peshkoff 1940 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Parte AC, Sarda Carbasse J, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Reimer LC, Goker M. List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5607-5612.

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Record number: 57287
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