Name: Prosthecomicrobium Staley 1968 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Pros.the.co.mi.cro’bi.um. Gr. fem. n. prosthêkê, appendage; N.L. neut. n. microbium, microbe; N.L. neut. n. Prosthecomicrobium, appendage (-bearing) microbe

Gender, pronunciation: neuter (stem: Prosthecomicrobi-), pros-t^he-ko-mi-KRO-bi-um

Type species: Prosthecomicrobium pneumaticum Staley 1968 (Approved Lists 1980)

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Staley JT. Prosthecomicrobium and Ancalomicrobium: new prosthecate freshwater bacteria. J Bacteriol 1968; 95:1921-1942.

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:
  • Staley 1984 Staley JT. Prosthecomicrobium hirschii, a new species in a redefined genus. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1984; 34:304-308.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
  • Vasilyeva et al. 2022 Vasilyeva L, Grouzdev D, Koziaeva V, Berestovskaya Y, Novikov A, et al. Prosthecodimorpha staleyi gen. nov., sp. nov., novel prosthecate bacteria within the family Ancalomicrobiaceae and reclassificationof the polyphyletic genus Prosthecomicrobium. Microbiology (Russia) 2022; 91:479-488. Oren A, Göker M. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 37. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5696.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 DiCenzo et al. (2024) assigned this genus to the family Kaistiaceae Hördt et al. 2020. Publication: diCenzo GC, Yang Y, Young JPW, Kuzmanovic N. Refining the taxonomy of the order Hyphomicrobiales (Rhizobiales) based on whole genome comparisons of over 130 type strains. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6328.
  • 🧕 Vasilyeva et al. (2022) assigned this genus to the family Kaistiaceae Hördt et al. 2020. Publication: Vasilyeva L, Grouzdev D, Koziaeva V, Berestovskaya Y, Novikov A, et al. Prosthecodimorpha staleyi gen. nov., sp. nov., novel prosthecate bacteria within the family Ancalomicrobiaceae and reclassificationof the polyphyletic genus Prosthecomicrobium. Microbiology (Russia) 2022; 91:479-488.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Prosthecomicro"; "Prosthecomicrobiirm"; "Prosthecomicrobiljm"; "Prosthecomicrohiurn"; "Prosthecornicrobiirm"; "Prosthemicrobium"; "Prothecomicrobium".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Vasilyeva et al. (2024), Yee et al. (2010). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 4; VKM: 4; ATCC: 3; CCM: 2; NBRC: 1; UQM: 1; NCIMB: 1; JCM: 1.
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "PCMI" 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: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 6
Total number of child taxa: 6

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Prosthecomicrobium consociatum Vasil'eva et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Prosthecomicrobium enhydrum Staley 1968 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Prosthecomicrobium hirschii Staley 1984	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Prosthecomicrobium litoralum Bauld et al. 1983	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Prosthecomicrobium mishustinii Vasil'eva et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Prosthecomicrobium pneumaticum Staley 1968 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Hyphomicrobiaceae Babudieri 1950 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: 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.

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