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Name: Porphyrobacter Fuerst et al. 1993

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: Por.phy.ro.bac’ter. N.L. neut. n. porphyrinum, porphyrine; Gr. masc. adj. porphyreos, purple; Gr. fem. n. porphyra, pertaining to porphyrine; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Porphyrobacter, porphyrin-producing rod

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Porphyrobacter-), por-phy-ro-BAK-ter

Type species: Porphyrobacter neustonensis Fuerst et al. 1993

16S rRNA gene: Analysetree FASTA download

Valid publication: Fuerst JA, Hawkins JA, Holmes A, Sly LI, Moore CJ, Stackebrandt E. Porphyrobacter neustonensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an aerobic bacteriochlorophyll-synthesizing budding bacterium from fresh water. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1993; 43:125-134. 🇦🇺

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 43, part 1 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1993; 43:399.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Erythrobacter Shiba and Simidu 1982

  • Emendations:
    • Coil et al. 2015 Coil DA, Flanagan JC, Stump A, Alexiev A, Lang JM, Eisen JA. Porphyrobacter mercurialis sp. nov., isolated from a stadium seat and emended description of the genus Porphyrobacter. PeerJ 2015; 3:e1400. 🇺🇸 Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 24. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2469-2470.
      Notes:
      • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
  • Notes:
    • 🧕 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Sphingomonadaceae Kosako et al. 2000. Publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Class I. Alphaproteobacteria class. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 1. 🇺🇸
    • 🧕 Kosako et al. (2000) assigned this genus to the family Sphingomonadaceae Kosako et al. 2000. Publication: Kosako Y, Yabuuchi E, Naka T, Fujiwara N, Kobayashi K. Proposal of Sphingomonadaceae fam. nov., consisting of Sphingomonas Yabuuchi et al. 1990, Erythrobacter Shiba and Shimidu 1982, Erythromicrobium Yurkov et al. 1994, Porphyrobacter Fuerst et al. 1993, Zymomonas Kluyver and van Niel 1936, and Sandaracinobacter Yurkov et al. 1997, with the type genus Sphingomonas Yabuuchi et al. 1990. Microbiol Immunol 2000; 44:563-575. 🇯🇵
    • 🚂 For the type species of this genus another name is in use, which is affiliated with the genus Erythrobacter Shiba and Simidu 1982. Publication: Xu L, Sun C, Fang C, Oren A, Xu XW. Genomic-based taxonomic classification of the family Erythrobacteraceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4470-4495. 🇨🇳
    • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Phyrobacter"; "Poiphyrobacter"; "Polphyrobacter"; "Pophyrobacter"; "Porpbyrobacter"; "Porphixobacter"; "Powhyrobacter"; "Pqrphyrobacter"; "Prophyrobacter".
    • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Yoon et al. (2006). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
    • ❗ Porphyrobacter is the correct name instead if this genus is regarded as a separate genus (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another genus whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority).
    • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 7; JCM: 3; KCTC: 3; ATCC: 2; KEMB: 1; ICPB: 1; IAM: 1; IFO: 1; NCIMB: 1; CIP: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 9
Total number of child taxa: 10

Parent taxon: Erythrobacteraceae Lee et al. 2005

Assigned by: Lee KB, Liu CT, Anzai Y, Kim H, Aono T, Oyaizu H. The hierarchical system of the 'Alphaproteobacteria': description of Hyphomonadaceae fam. nov., Xanthobacteraceae fam. nov. and Erythrobacteraceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1907-1919. 🇯🇵

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