Genus Pseudobacter

Name: Pseudobacter Siddiqi and Im 2016

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Pseu.do.bac’ter. Gr. masc./fem. adj. pseudês, false; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Pseudobacter, a false rod, referring to two morphological forms, long rod and short rod, untrue shape

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Pseudobacter-), pse͡u-do-BAK-ter

Type species: Pseudobacter ginsenosidimutans Siddiqi and Im 2016

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Siddiqi MZ, Im WT. Pseudobacter ginsenosidimutans gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from ginseng cultivating soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3449-3455. 🇰🇷

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4921-4923.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Notes:
- 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Pseudoflavitalea Kim et al. 2016. Publication: Lawson PA, Patel NB, Mohammed A, Moore ERB, Lo AS, Sardi A, Davis JM, Doyle DA, Hui Y, Testerman T. Parapseudoflavitalea muciniphila gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Chitinophagaceae isolated from a human peritoneal tumour and reclassification of Pseudobacter ginsenosidimutans as Pseudoflavitalea ginsenosidimutans comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3639-3646. 🇺🇸
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Psudobacter".
- 😢 The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. Contrasting the term "chemotaxonomic" with "phenotypic" is not recommended. Whether taxa can have "members" is debatable. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details. Publication: Göker M. What can genome analysis offer for bacteria? In: Bridge P, Smith D, Stackebrandt E (eds), Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi, CAB International, Wallingford, 2021, p. 255-281. 🇬🇧
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: KACC: 2; DSM: 1; NBRC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 3

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Pseudobacter ginsenosidimutans Siddiqi and Im 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Candidatus Pseudobacter hemicellulosilyticus" Diaz-Garcia et al. 2023	not validly published	preferred name
"Pseudobacter rhizosphaerae" (Kim et al. 2016) Diaz-Garcia et al. 2023	not validly published	synonym

Parent taxon: Chitinophagaceae Kämpfer et al. 2011

Assigned by: Siddiqi MZ, Im WT. Pseudobacter ginsenosidimutans gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from ginseng cultivating soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3449-3455. 🇰🇷

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