Name: Pseudarthrobacter Busse 2016

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Pseud.ar.thro.bac’ter. Gr. masc./fem. adj. pseudês, false; N.L. masc. n. Arthrobacter, a bacterial genus name; N.L. masc. n. Pseudarthrobacter, the false Arthrobacter

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Pseudarthrobacter-), pse͡ud-ar-t^hro-BAK-ter

Type species: Pseudarthrobacter polychromogenes (Schippers-Lammertse et al. 1963) Busse 2016

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Busse HJ. Review of the taxonomy of the genus Arthrobacter, emendation of the genus Arthrobacter sensu lato, proposal to reclassify selected species of the genus Arthrobacter in the novel genera Glutamicibacter gen. nov., Paeniglutamicibacter gen. nov., Pseudoglutamicibacter gen. nov., Paenarthrobacter gen. nov. and Pseudarthrobacter gen. nov., and emended description of Arthrobacter roseus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:9-37. 🇦🇹

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1607-1611.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Busse and Schumann 2019 Busse HJ, Schumann P. Reclassification of Arthrobacter enclensis as Pseudarthrobacter enclensis comb. nov., and emended descriptions of the genus Pseudarthrobacter, and the species Pseudarthrobacter phenanthrenivorans and Pseudarthrobacter scleromae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:3508-3511. 🇦🇹 Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 69, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:705-707.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Arthrobacter Conn and Dimmick 1947 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Schippers-Lammertse AF, Muijsers AO, Klatser-Oedekerk KB. Arthrobacter polychromogenes nov spec., its pigments and a bacteriophage of this species. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Journal of Microbiology and Serology 1963; 29:1-15.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Pseudoarthrobacter".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Busse and Schumann (2019), Baek et al. (2026). 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: CGMCC: 15; NBRC: 12; DSM: 11; JCM: 11; LMG: 5; ATCC: 4; CIP: 4; KCTC: 3; IAM: 3; KACC: 3.
  • 🧍 The distinct name Paenarthrobacter from the same publication has a similar spelling. Publication: Angell RC, Freund GE, Willett P. Automatic spelling correction using a trigram similarity measure. Information Processing and Management 1983; 19:255-261.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 28
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 28
Total number of child taxa: 28

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Pseudarthrobacter adonitolis Yang et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudarthrobacter albicanus Chen et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudarthrobacter arbutini Yang et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudarthrobacter cellobiosi Yang et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudarthrobacter chlorophenolicus (Westerberg et al. 2000) Busse 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudarthrobacter cremeus Baek et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudarthrobacter defluvii (Kim et al. 2008) Busse 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudarthrobacter enclensis (Dastager et al. 2015) Busse and Schumann 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudarthrobacter equi (Yassin et al. 2011) Busse 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudarthrobacter humi Kim and Seo 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudarthrobacter kochi Yang et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudarthrobacter lactosi Yang et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudarthrobacter leeuwenhoeki Yang et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudarthrobacter linnaei Yang et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudarthrobacter naphthalenicus Liu et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudarthrobacter niigatensis (Ding et al. 2009) Busse 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudarthrobacter oxydans (Sguros 1954) Busse 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudarthrobacter phenanthrenivorans (Kallimanis et al. 2009) Busse 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudarthrobacter polychromogenes (Schippers-Lammertse et al. 1963) Busse 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudarthrobacter psychrotolerans Shin et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudarthrobacter quantipunctorum Carrasco et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudarthrobacter raffinosi Yang et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudarthrobacter ribosi Yang et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudarthrobacter scleromae (Huang et al. 2005) Busse 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudarthrobacter siccitolerans (SantaCruz-Calvo et al. 2013) Busse 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudarthrobacter sulfonivorans (Borodina et al. 2002) Busse 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudarthrobacter woesei Yang et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudarthrobacter xylosi Yang et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Micrococcaceae Pribram 1929 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Busse HJ. Review of the taxonomy of the genus Arthrobacter, emendation of the genus Arthrobacter sensu lato, proposal to reclassify selected species of the genus Arthrobacter in the novel genera Glutamicibacter gen. nov., Paeniglutamicibacter gen. nov., Pseudoglutamicibacter gen. nov., Paenarthrobacter gen. nov. and Pseudarthrobacter gen. nov., and emended description of Arthrobacter roseus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:9-37. 🇦🇹

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