Name: Rhodomicrobium Duchow and Douglas 1949 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Rho.do.mi.cro.bi.um. Gr. neut. n. rhodon, the rose; N.L. neut. n. microbium, microbe; N.L. neut. n. Rhodomicrobium, red microbe

Gender: neuter (stem: Rhodomicrobi-)

Type species: Rhodomicrobium vannielii Duchow and Douglas 1949 (Approved Lists 1980)

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Duchow E, Douglas HC. RHODOMICROBIUM VANNIELII, A NEW PHOTOHETEROTROPHIC BACTERIUM. J Bacteriol 1949; 58:409-416.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Imhoff et al. 1984 Imhoff JF, Trüper HG, Pfennig N. Rearrangement of the species and genera of the phototrophic "purple nonsulfur bacteria". Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1984; 34:340-343.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Rhodomicrobiaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🧕 Cavalier-Smith (1981) assigned this genus to the subkingdom "Eubacteria" Cavalier-Smith 1981. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. Eukaryote kingdoms: seven or nine? Biosystems 1981; 14:461-481.
  • 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Rhodomicrobiaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Rhodomicmbium"; "Rhodomiorobium"; "Rhodornicrobium".
  • 🧔 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, 4 August 2015, Tubingen, Germany. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5211.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: NBRC: 2; KCTC: 2; MCC: 1; ATCC: 1; DSM: 1.
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "ROMI" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer. Publication: Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.

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: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Rhodomicrobium lacus Suresh et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Rhodomicrobium udaipurense Ramana et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Rhodomicrobium vannielii Duchow and Douglas 1949 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Hyphomicrobiaceae Babudieri 1950 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Class I. Alphaproteobacteria class. 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. 1.

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