Name: Prolixibacter Holmes et al. 2007

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Pro.li.xi.bac’ter. L. adj. prolixus -a -um, long, extended; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; from Gr. neut. dim. n. baktêrion, rod; N.L. masc. n. Prolixibacter, a long rod

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Prolixibacter-), pro-li-ksi-BAK-ter

Type species: Prolixibacter bellariivorans Holmes et al. 2007

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Holmes DE, Nevin KP, Woodard TL, Peacock AD, Lovley DR. Prolixibacter bellariivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a sugar-fermenting, psychrotolerant anaerobe of the phylum Bacteroidetes, isolated from a marine-sediment fuel cell. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:701-707. 🇺🇸

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1374-1375.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Iino et al. 2015 Iino T, Sakamoto M, Ohkuma M. Prolixibacter denitrificans sp. nov., an iron-corroding, facultatively aerobic, nitrate-reducing bacterium isolated from crude oil, and emended descriptions of the genus Prolixibacter and Prolixibacter bellariivorans. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:2865-2869. 🇯🇵 Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 65, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:4294-4296.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Prolixibacteraceae Huang et al. 2014. Publication: Huang XF, Liu YJ, Dong JD, Qu LY, Zhang YY, Wang FZ, Tian XP, Zhang S. Mangrovibacterium diazotrophicum gen. nov., sp. nov., a nitrogen-fixing bacterium isolated from a mangrove sediment, and proposal of Prolixibacteraceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:875-881. 🇨🇳
  • 🧕 Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the class "Bacteroidetes". Publication: Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO. The SILVA and “all-species living tree project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; 42(D1):D643-D648. 🇩🇪
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 2; ATCC: 1; NBRC: 1; DSM: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Prolixibacter bellariivorans Holmes et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Prolixibacter denitrificans Iino et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Prolixibacteraceae Huang et al. 2014

Assigned by: Huang XF, Liu YJ, Dong JD, Qu LY, Zhang YY, Wang FZ, Tian XP, Zhang S. Mangrovibacterium diazotrophicum gen. nov., sp. nov., a nitrogen-fixing bacterium isolated from a mangrove sediment, and proposal of Prolixibacteraceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:875-881. 🇨🇳

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