Name: Pseudoramibacter Willems and Collins 1996

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Pseu.do.ra.mi.bac’ter. Gr. masc./fem. adj. pseudês, false; L. masc. n. ramus, a branch; N.L. masc. n. bacter, rod, staff; N.L. masc. n. Pseudoramibacter, false branching rod

Gender, pronunciation: masculine (stem: Pseudoramibacter-), pse͡u-do-ra-mi-BAK-ter

Type species: Pseudoramibacter alactolyticus (Prévot and Taffanel 1942) Willems and Collins 1996

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Willems A, Collins MD. Phylogenetic relationships of the genera Acetobacterium and Eubacterium sensu stricto and reclassification of Eubacterium alactolyticum as Pseudoramibacter alactolyticus gen. nov., comb. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1996; 46:1083-1087.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 46, part 4 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:243-244.

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 Eubacterium Prévot 1938 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Holdeman LV, Moore WEC. Eubacterium. In: Cato EP, Cummins CS, Holdeman LV, Johnson JL, Moore WEC, Smibert RM, Smith LDS (eds), Outline of Clinical Methods in Anaerobic Bacteriology, 2nd revision, Virginia Polytechnic Institute - Anaerobe Laboratory, Blacksburg/Virginia, 1970, p. 23-30.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus "Ramibacterium" Prévot 1938. Publication: Prévot AR, Taffanel J. Recherches sur une nouvelle espèce anaérobie Ramibacterium alactolyticum (nov. spec.). Annales de l'Institut Pasteur (Paris) 1942; 68:259-262.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Pseudooramibacter".
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.10421 (N = 10).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 2; DSM: 2; KCTC: 1; CGMCC: 1; ATCC: 1; CIP: 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: 3
Total number of child taxa: 4

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Pseudoramibacter alactolyticus (Prévot and Taffanel 1942) Willems and Collins 1996	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudoramibacter faecis Wang et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Candidatus Pseudoramibacter fermentans" Scarborough et al. 2020	not validly published	pro-correct name
    Pseudoramibacter porci Wylensek et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Eubacteriaceae Ludwig et al. 2010

Assigned by: Ludwig W, Schleifer K-H, Whitman WB. Family II. Eubacteriaceae fam. nov. In: De Vos P, Garrity GM, Jones D, Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Rainey FA, K.-H. S, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 3 (The Firmicutes), Springer, New York, 2009, p. 865.

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