Name: Prosthecochloris Gorlenko 1970 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Pros.the.co.chlo’ris. Gr. fem. n. prosthêkê, appendage; Gr. masc. adj. chlôros, greenish-yellow, pale green; N.L. fem. n. Prosthecochloris, green (organism) with appendages

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Prosthecochlorid-), pros-t^he-ko-K^HLO-ris

Type species: Prosthecochloris aestuarii Gorlenko 1970 (Approved Lists 1980)

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Gorlenko VM. A new phototrophic green sulphur bacterium. Prosthecochloris aestuarii nov. gen. nov. spec. Z Allg Mikrobiol 1970; 10:147-149.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Imhoff 2003 Imhoff JF. Phylogenetic taxonomy of the family Chlorobiaceae on the basis of 16S rRNA and fmo (Fenna-Matthews-Olson protein) gene sequences. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:941-951. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 53, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1703-1705.
    Notes:
    • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the associated publication is not functional any more.
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Prostecochloris"; "Prosthechluris"; "Prosthecocbloris"; "Prosthecochlmis"; "Prosthecochlo"; "Prosthecochoris"; "Prostheocochloris"; "Prostluchloris"; "Prothecochloris"; "Pvosthecochloris".
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Trüper HG, Imhoff JF. International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology - Subcommittee on the taxonomy of phototrophic bacteria. Minutes of the meetings, 10 September 1997, Vienna, Austria. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1999; 49:925-926.
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Trueper HG, Imhoff JF. ICSB, SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE TAXONOMY OF THE PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIA: Minutes of the meetings, 10 September 1997, Vienna, Austria. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1999; 49:925-926.
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Imhoff JF, Wilmotte A. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of phototrophic bacteria: minutes of the meetings, 11 August 2009, Montreal, Canada. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3907-3909.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 2; KCTC: 1; BCRC: 1; ATCC: 1; JCM: 1; VKM: 1.
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "PCCL" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer. Publication: Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 9

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Prosthecochloris aestuarii Gorlenko 1970 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Candidatus Prosthecochloris corallii" corrig. Cai et al. 2017	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Prosthecochloris ethylica" Kyndt et al. 2020	not validly published	preferred name
    "Prosthecochloris indica" Anil Kumar et al. 2009	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Prosthecochloris isoporae" Chen et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Prosthecochloris korallensis" Cai et al. 2017	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    Prosthecochloris marina Bryantseva et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Prosthecochloris phaeoasteroidea" Puchkova and Gorlenko 1976	not validly published	preferred name
    Prosthecochloris vibrioformis (Pelsh 1936) Imhoff 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Chlorobiaceae Copeland 1956 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Imhoff JF. Phylogenetic taxonomy of the family Chlorobiaceae on the basis of 16S rRNA and fmo (Fenna-Matthews-Olson protein) gene sequences. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:941-951.

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