Name: Pseudorhodobacter Uchino et al. 2003

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Gr. masc./fem. adj. pseudês, false; N.L. masc. n. Rhodobacter, a bacterial generic name; N.L. masc. n. Pseudorhodobacter, false Rhodobacter

Gender: masculine (stem: Pseudorhodobacter-)

Type species: Pseudorhodobacter ferrugineus (Rüger and Höfle 1992 ex Ahrens and Rheinheimer 1967) Uchino et al. 2003

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Uchino Y, Hamada T, Yokota A. Proposal of Pseudorhodobacter ferrugineus gen nov, comb nov, for a non-photosynthetic marine bacterium, Agrobacterium ferrugineum, related to the genus Rhodobacter. J Gen Appl Microbiol 2002; 48:309-319.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 92. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:935-937.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Jung et al. 2012 Jung YT, Oh KH, Oh TK, Yoon JH. Pseudorhodobacter aquimaris sp. nov., isolated from seawater, and emended description of the genus Pseudorhodobacter Uchino et al. 2002. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:100-105. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 62, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:757-758.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
    • 🧍 In the paper by Jung et al. 2012, Pseudorhodobacter Uchino et al. 2003 is erroneously cited as Pseudorhodobacter Uchino et al. 2002.
  • Chen et al. 2013 Chen CX, Zhang XY, Liu C, Yu Y, Liu A, Li GW, Li H, Chen XL, Chen B, Zhou BC, et al. Pseudorhodobacter antarcticus sp. nov., isolated from Antarctic intertidal sandy sediment, and emended description of the genus Pseudorhodobacter Uchino et al. 2002 emend. Jung et al. 2012. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:849-854. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1939-1941.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
  • Lee et al. 2013 Lee MH, Lee SY, Jung YT, Park S, Yoon JH. Pseudorhodobacter wandonensis sp. nov., isolated from wood falls, and emended description of the genus Pseudorhodobacter. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1479-1484. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2368-2370.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
  • Lee et al. 2016 Lee YM, Yang JY, Baek K, Han SJ, Shin SC, Hwang CY, Hong SG, Lee HK. Pseudorhodobacter psychrotolerans sp. nov., a psychrotolerant bacterium isolated from terrestrial soil, and emended description of the genus Pseudorhodobacter. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1068-1073. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1916-1919.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
  • Hördt et al. 2020 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.
    Notes:
    • ⊖ Emendation accompanied by the removal of 4 species from the genus.
    • 🧍 As of 2020-04-15 this emendation was not yet included in an IJSEM List of Changes in Taxonomic Opinion. — 🧍 In the publication by Hördt et al. (2020) the authority was incorrectly given as "Uchino et al. 2002".

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Rhodobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family I. Rhodobacteraceae fam. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 161.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Agrobacterium Conn 1942 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Ruger HJ, Hofle MG. Marine star-shaped-aggregate-forming bacteria: Agrobacterium atlanticum sp. nov.; Agrobacterium meteori sp. nov.; Agrobacterium ferrugineum sp. nov., nom. rev.; Agrobacterium gelatinovorum sp. nov., nom. rev.; and Agrobacterium stellulatum sp. nov., nom. rev. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1992; 42:133-143.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Pseudorhodobacer"; "Pseudorohodobacter".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Jung et al. (2017). 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: KCTC: 8; JCM: 3; CGMCC: 3; CCUG: 2; NBRC: 2; DSM: 1; CIP: 1; ATCC: 1; IFO: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 6
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 10
Total number of child taxa: 10

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Pseudorhodobacter antarcticus Chen et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudorhodobacter aquaticus Li et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Pseudorhodobacter aquimaris Jung et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudorhodobacter collinsensis Zhang et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Pseudorhodobacter ferrugineus (Rüger and Höfle 1992 ex Ahrens and Rheinheimer 1967) Uchino et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudorhodobacter ponti Jung et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudorhodobacter psychrotolerans Lee et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Pseudorhodobacter sinensis Li et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Pseudorhodobacter turbinis Jeong et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudorhodobacter wandonensis Lee et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Paracoccaceae Liang et al. 2022

Assigned by: Goker M. Filling the gaps: missing taxon names at the ranks of class, order and family. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5638.

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