Name: Rhodobium Hiraishi et al. 1995

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Rho.do’bi.um. Gr. neut. n. rhodon, rose; Gr. masc. n. bios, life; N.L. neut. n. Rhodobium, red life

Gender, pronunciation: neuter (stem: Rhodobi-), r^ho-DO-bi-um

Type species: Rhodobium orientis Hiraishi et al. 1995

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Hiraishi A, Urata K, Satoh T. A new genus of marine budding phototrophic bacteria, Rhodobium gen. nov., which includes Rhodobium orientis sp. nov. and Rhodobium marinum comb. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1995; 45:226-234.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 45, part 2 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1995; 45:621.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Urdiain et al. 2008 Urdiain M, Lopez-Lopez A, Gonzalo C, Busse HJ, Langer S, Kampfer P, Rossello-Mora R. Reclassification of Rhodobium marinum and Rhodobium pfennigii as Afifella marina gen. nov. comb. nov. and Afifella pfennigii comb. nov., a new genus of photoheterotrophic Alphaproteobacteria and emended descriptions of Rhodobium, Rhodobium orientis and Rhodobium gokarnense. Syst Appl Microbiol 2008; 31:339-351. Euzeby JP. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 9. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:5-6.
    Notes:
    • ⊖ Emendation accompanied by the removal of 2 species from the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Rhodobiaceae Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family X. Rhodobiaceae 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. 571.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Rkodobium".
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Trüper HG, Imhoff JF. International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology - Subcommittee on the taxonomy of phototrophic bacteria. Minutes of the meetings, 10 September 1997, Vienna, Austria. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1999; 49:925-926.
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Trueper HG, Imhoff JF. ICSB, SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE TAXONOMY OF THE PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIA: Minutes of the meetings, 10 September 1997, Vienna, Austria. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1999; 49:925-926.
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Imhoff JF, Wilmotte A. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of phototrophic bacteria: minutes of the meetings, 11 August 2009, Montreal, Canada. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3907-3909.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 4; ATCC: 4; JCM: 2; NBRC: 1; CIP: 1.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1". — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
  • 🧍 According to Shipunov (2011), this name is a hemihomonym. Publication: Shipunov A. The problem of hemihomonyms and the on-line hemihomonyms database (HHDB). Bionomina 2011; 4:65-72.
  • 🧍 Rhodobium Hiraishi et al. 1995 is a later homonym of a genus name with standing in the zoological (animal) nomenclature: Rhodobium Hille Ris Lambers, 1947. Principle 2 of the 2008 Code is not retroactive, so the name does not contravene the Code because of this homonymy. — Crook M. Personal communication, 2021-08-19.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 4
Total number of child taxa: 4

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Rhodobium gokarnense Srinivas et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Rhodobium marinum (Imhoff 1984) Hiraishi et al. 1995	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Rhodobium orientis Hiraishi et al. 1995	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Rhodobium pfennigii Caumette et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	synonym

Parent taxon: Rhodobiaceae Garrity et al. 2006

Assigned by: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family X. Rhodobiaceae 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. 571.

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