Name: Rubinisphaera Scheuner et al. 2015

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ru.bi.ni.sphaer’a. N.L. fem. n. Rubinia, named in honor of Edward Rubin, an American geneticist and medical researcher, who played a key role in initiating the Genomic Encyclopedia of Archaea and Bacteria project at the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI); Gr. fem. pl. n. sphaîrai, a ball, globe, sphere; N.L. fem. n. Rubinisphaera, a spherical organism named after Edward Rubin

Gender: feminine (stem: Rubinisphaer-)

Type species: Rubinisphaera brasiliensis (Schlesner 1990) Scheuner et al. 2015

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Scheuner C, Tindall BJ, Lu M, Nolan M, Lapidus A, Cheng JF, Goodwin L, Pitluck S, Huntemann M, Liolios K, et al. Complete genome sequence of Planctomyces brasiliensis type strain (DSM 5305^T), phylogenomic analysis and reclassification of Planctomycetes including the descriptions of Gimesia gen. nov., Planctopirus gen. nov. and Rubinisphaera gen. nov. and emended descriptions of the order Planctomycetales and the family Planctomycetaceae. Stand Genomic Sci 2014; 9:10.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 162. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:741-744.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Kallscheuer et al. 2020 Kallscheuer N, Jogler M, Wiegand S, Peeters SH, Heuer A, Boedeker C, Jetten MSM, Rohde M, Jogler C. Rubinisphaera italica sp. nov. isolated from a hydrothermal area in the Tyrrhenian Sea close to the volcanic island Panarea. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2020; 113:1727-1736. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 34. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4816.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Planctomyces Gimesi 1924 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Schlesner H. Planctomyces brasiliensis sp. nov., a halotolerant bacterium from a salt pit. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 1989; 12:159-161.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Rubinispharea"; "Rubinisphera".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 2; LMG: 2; CECT: 1; NBRC: 1; JCM: 1; ATCC: 1.

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
    Rubinisphaera brasiliensis (Schlesner 1990) Scheuner et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Rubinisphaera italica Kallscheuer et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Rubinisphaera margarita Vitorino et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Planctomycetaceae Schlesner and Stackebrandt 1987

Assigned by: Scheuner C, Tindall BJ, Lu M, Nolan M, Lapidus A, Cheng JF, Goodwin L, Pitluck S, Huntemann M, Liolios K, et al. Complete genome sequence of Planctomyces brasiliensis type strain (DSM 5305^T), phylogenomic analysis and reclassification of Planctomycetes including the descriptions of Gimesia gen. nov., Planctopirus gen. nov. and Rubinisphaera gen. nov. and emended descriptions of the order Planctomycetales and the family Planctomycetaceae. Stand Genomic Sci 2014; 9:10.

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