Name: Robbsia Lopes-Santos et al. 2017

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Robb’s.i.a. N.L. fem. n. Robbsia, named after Charles Frederick Robbs, a bacteriologist who pioneered bacterial plant pathology in Brazil

Gender: feminine (stem: Robbsi-)

Type species: Robbsia andropogonis (Smith 1911) Lopes-Santos et al. 2017

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Lopes-Santos L, Castro DBA, Ferreira-Tonin M, Correa DBA, Weir BS, Park D, Ottoboni LMM, Neto JR, Destefano SAL. Reassessment of the taxonomic position of Burkholderia andropogonis and description of Robbsia andropogonis gen. nov., comb. nov. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2017; 110:727-736.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 177. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:3140-3143.

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 Burkholderia Yabuuchi et al. 1993. Publication: Gillis M, Van TV, Bardin R, Goor M, Hebbar P, Willems A, Segers P, Kersters K, Heulin T, Fernandez MP. Polyphasic taxonomy in the genus Burkholderia leading to an emended description of the genus and proposition of Burkholderia vietnamiensis sp. nov. for N2-fixing isolates from rice in Vietnam. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1995; 45:274-289.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Pseudomonas Migula 1894 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Stapp C. Schizomycetes (Spaltpilze oder Bakterien). In: Sorauer P (eds), Handbuch der Pflanzenkrankheiten, 5th ed., Vol. 2, Paul Parey, Berlin, 1928, p. 1-295.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Pseudomonas Migula 1894 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Stevens FL. Plant Disease Fungi. MacMillan Co., New York, 1925.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Paraburkholderia Sawana et al. 2015. Publication: Sawana A, Adeolu M, Gupta RS. Molecular signatures and phylogenomic analysis of the genus Burkholderia: proposal for division of this genus into the emended genus Burkholderia containing pathogenic organisms and a new genus Paraburkholderia gen. nov. harboring environmental species. Front Genet 2014; 5:429.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus "Bacterium" Ehrenberg 1831. Publication: Smith EF. Bacteria in relation to plant diseases. Carnegie Institute, Washington, 1911.
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: de Lajudie PM, Young JPW. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee for the Taxonomy of Rhizobium and Agrobacterium Minutes of the meeting, Budapest, 25 August 2016. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2485-2494.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 2; CCUG: 1; ICMP: 1; NCPPB: 1; CIP: 1; NRRL: 1; CFBP: 1; ATCC: 1; JCM: 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
    Robbsia andropogonis (Smith 1911) Lopes-Santos et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Robbsia betulipollinis Shi et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Burkholderiaceae Garrity et al. 2006

Assigned by: Lopes-Santos L, Castro DBA, Ferreira-Tonin M, Correa DBA, Weir BS, Park D, Ottoboni LMM, Neto JR, Destefano SAL. Reassessment of the taxonomic position of Burkholderia andropogonis and description of Robbsia andropogonis gen. nov., comb. nov. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2017; 110:727-736.

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