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Genus Pseudophaeobacter
Name: Pseudophaeobacter Breider et al. 2014
Etymology: Pseu.do.phae.o.bac’ter. Gr. neut. adj. pseudes, false; N.L. masc. n. Phaeobacter, a bacterial genus; N.L. masc. n. Pseudophaeobacter, false Phaeobacter
Gender: masculine (stem: Pseudophaeobacter-)
Type species: Pseudophaeobacter arcticus (Zhang et al. 2008) Breider et al. 2014
Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS
Effective publication:
Breider S, Scheuner C, Schumann P, Fiebig A, Petersen J, Pradella S, Klenk HP, Brinkhoff T, Goker M. Genome-scale data suggest reclassifications in the Leisingera-Phaeobacter cluster including proposals for Sedimentitalea gen. nov. and Pseudophaeobacter gen. nov. Front Microbiol 2014; 5:416. 
IJSEM list:
Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 160. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3603-3606.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name
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Notes:
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🧕 Breider et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Rhodobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006.
Publication:
Breider S, Scheuner C, Schumann P, Fiebig A, Petersen J, Pradella S, Klenk HP, Brinkhoff T, Goker M. Genome-scale data suggest reclassifications in the Leisingera-Phaeobacter cluster including proposals for Sedimentitalea gen. nov. and Pseudophaeobacter gen. nov. Front Microbiol 2014; 5:416.
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🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Phaeobacter Martens et al. 2006.
Publication:
Zhang DC, Li HR, Xin YH, Liu HC, Chi ZM, Zhou PJ, Yu Y. Phaeobacter arcticus sp. nov., a psychrophilic bacterium isolated from the Arctic. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1384-1387.
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 2; CIP: 1; KCTC: 1; CGMCC: 1; JCM: 1; MCCC: 1.
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🧍 A genome-scale phylogenetic analysis of the genus was conducted by Breider et al. (2014).
Publication:
Breider S, Scheuner C, Schumann P, Fiebig A, Petersen J, Pradella S, Klenk HP, Brinkhoff T, Goker M. Genome-scale data suggest reclassifications in the Leisingera-Phaeobacter cluster including proposals for Sedimentitalea gen. nov. and Pseudophaeobacter gen. nov. Front Microbiol 2014; 5:416.
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🧕 Breider et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Rhodobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006.
Publication:
Breider S, Scheuner C, Schumann P, Fiebig A, Petersen J, Pradella S, Klenk HP, Brinkhoff T, Goker M. Genome-scale data suggest reclassifications in the Leisingera-Phaeobacter cluster including proposals for Sedimentitalea gen. nov. and Pseudophaeobacter gen. nov. Front Microbiol 2014; 5:416.
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 4
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 4
Total number of child taxa: 4
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status Pseudophaeobacter arcticus (Zhang et al. 2008) Breider et al. 2014 validly published under the ICNP correct name Pseudophaeobacter flagellatus Guan et al. 2022 validly published under the ICNP correct name Pseudophaeobacter leonis (Gaboyer et al. 2013) Breider et al. 2014 validly published under the ICNP correct name Pseudophaeobacter profundi Zhu et al. 2023 validly published under the ICNP correct name
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Parent taxon: Roseobacteraceae Liang et al. 2021
Assigned by:
Liang KYH, Orata FD, Boucher YF, Case RJ. Roseobacters in a Sea of Poly- and Paraphyly: Whole Genome-Based Taxonomy of the Family Rhodobacteraceae and the Proposal for the Split of the "Roseobacter Clade" Into a Novel Family, Roseobacteraceae fam. nov. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:683109.
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Record number: 518627
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