Name: "Roseospirillum" Glaeser and Overmann 1999

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: L. masc. adj. roseus, rosy; N.L. neut. dim. n. spirillum, a little spiral, and also a bacterial genus; from Gr. fem. n. speîra, a spiral; N.L. neut. dim. n. Roseospirillum, the rosy spiral (the rosy Spirillum)

Gender: neuter (stem: Roseospirill-)

Type species: "Roseospirillum parvum" Glaeser and Overmann 1999

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Glaeser J, Overmann J. Selective enrichment and characterization of Roseospirillum parvum, gen. nov. and sp. nov., a new purple nonsulfur bacterium with unusual light absorption properties. Arch Microbiol 1999; 171:405-416.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 80. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:793-794.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • Fukuda et al. (2012) assigned this genus to the family Rhodobiaceae Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Fukuda W, Yamada K, Miyoshi Y, Okuno H, Atomi H, Imanaka T. Rhodoligotrophos appendicifer gen. nov., sp. nov., an appendaged bacterium isolated from a freshwater Antarctic lake. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1945-1950.
  • 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, Madigan MT. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of phototrophic bacteria. Minutes of the Meetings, 28 August 2000, Barcelona, Spain. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2002; 52:2335-2336.
  • The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 1.
  • Regarded as not validly published. Roseospirillum Glaeser and Overmann 2001 is not validly published because the type species is not validly published. Publication: Oren A, Arahal DR, Goker M, Moore ERB, Rossello-Mora R, Sutcliffe IC. International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Prokaryotic Code (2022 Revision). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5585.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Roseospirillum parvum" Glaeser and Overmann 1999	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Rhodospirillaceae Pfennig and Trüper 1971 (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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