Name: Rhodoblastus Imhoff 2001

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Rho.do.blas’tus. Gr. neut. n. rhodon, the rose; Gr. masc. n. blastos, bud shoot; N.L. masc. n. Rhodoblastus, the budding rose, referring to the cell colour and the mode of cell division

Gender, pronunciation: masculine (stem: Rhodoblast-), r^ho-do-BLAS-tus

Type species: Rhodoblastus acidophilus (Pfennig 1969) Imhoff 2001

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Imhoff JF. Transfer of Rhodopseudomonas acidophila to the new genus Rhodoblastus as Rhodoblastus acidophilus gen. nov., comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1863-1866.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 51, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1947-1948.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Rhodoblastaceae diCenzo et al. 2024. Publication: diCenzo GC, Yang Y, Young JPW, Kuzmanovic N. Refining the taxonomy of the order Hyphomicrobiales (Rhizobiales) based on whole genome comparisons of over 130 type strains. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6328.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Rhodoblastaceae Guo et al. 2024. Publication: Guo XY, Zhang QM, Fu JC, Qiu LH. Terrirubrum flagellatum gen. nov., sp. nov. of Terrirubraceae fam. nov. and Lichenibacterium dinghuense sp. nov. from forest soil and proposal of Rhodoblastaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6348.
  • 🧕 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Bradyrhizobiaceae Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family VII. Bradyrhizobiaceae fam. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria) part C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 438.
  • 🧕 Dedysh et al. (2016) assigned this genus to the family Beijerinckiaceae Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Dedysh SN, Haupt ES, Dunfield PF. Emended description of the family Beijerinckiaceae and transfer of the genera Chelatococcus and Camelimonas to the family Chelatococcaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3177-3182.
  • 🧕 DiCenzo et al. (2024) assigned this genus to the family Rhodoblastaceae diCenzo et al. 2024. Publication: diCenzo GC, Yang Y, Young JPW, Kuzmanovic N. Refining the taxonomy of the order Hyphomicrobiales (Rhizobiales) based on whole genome comparisons of over 130 type strains. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6328.
  • 🧕 Guo et al. (2024) assigned this genus to the family Rhodoblastaceae diCenzo et al. 2024. Publication: Guo XY, Zhang QM, Fu JC, Qiu LH. Terrirubrum flagellatum gen. nov., sp. nov. of Terrirubraceae fam. nov. and Lichenibacterium dinghuense sp. nov. from forest soil and proposal of Rhodoblastaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6348.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Rhodopseudomonas Czurda and Maresch 1937 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Pfennig N. Rhodopseudomonas acidophila, sp. n., a new species of the budding purple nonsulfur bacteria. J Bacteriol 1969; 99:597-602.
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • 🧔 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: 2; CIP: 1; LMG: 1; VKM: 1; ATCC: 1.

Subdivision:

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

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Rhodoblastus acidophilus (Pfennig 1969) Imhoff 2001	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Rhodoblastus sphagnicola Kulichevskaya et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Roseiarcaceae Kulichevskaya et al. 2014

Assigned by: 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.

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