Name: Pseudaminobacter Kämpfer et al. 1999

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Pseud.a.mi.no.bac’ter. Gr. neut. adj. pseudes, false; N.L. masc. n. Aminobacter, generic name of a bacterium; N.L. masc. n. Pseudaminobacter, false Aminobacter

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Pseudaminobacter-), pse͡ud-a-mi-no-BAK-ter

Type species: Pseudaminobacter salicylatoxidans Kämpfer et al. 1999

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kampfer P, Muller C, Mau M, Neef A, Auling G, Busse HJ, Osborn AM, Stolz A. Description of Pseudaminobacter gen. nov. with two new species, Pseudaminobacter salicylatoxidans sp. nov. and Pseudaminobacter defluvii sp. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:887-897. 🇩🇪

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 49, part 2 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:937-939.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Li et al. 2024 Li Y, Guo T, Sun L, Wang ET, Young JPW, Tian CF. Phylogenomic analyses and reclassification of the Mesorhizobium complex: proposal for 9 novel genera and reclassification of 15 species. BMC Genomics 2024; 25:419. 🇨🇳 Oren A, Göker M. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 41. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6561.
    Notes:
    • ⊖ Emendation accompanied by the removal of 2 species from the genus.
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Hahn et al. (2017) assigned this genus to the family Phyllobacteriaceae Mergaert and Swings 2006. Publication: Hahn YK, Kim MS, Im WT. Pseudaminobacter granuli sp. nov., isolated from granules used in a wastewater treatment plant. J Microbiol 2017; 55:607-611. 🇰🇷
  • 🧕 Hördt et al. (2020) assigned this genus to the family Phyllobacteriaceae Mergaert and Swings 2006. Publication: Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468. 🇩🇪
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Pseudaminoba"; "Pseudoaminobacter"; "Pseudurninobacter".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: KCTC: 3; CCTCC: 3; LMG: 2; DSM: 2; JCM: 2; KACC: 2; CIP: 2; KEMB: 1; IFO: 1; NBRC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 6
Total number of child taxa: 7

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Pseudaminobacter arsenicus Mu et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Pseudaminobacter defluvii Kämpfer et al. 1999	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudaminobacter granuli Hahn et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudaminobacter manganicus Li et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Pseudaminobacter salicylatoxidans Kämpfer et al. 1999	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudaminobacter soli (Nguyen et al. 2015) Li et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    "Pseudaminobacter soli" Zhang et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: Bartonellaceae Gieszczykiewicz 1939 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: 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. 🇨🇦

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