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Genus Rubrimonas
Name: Rubrimonas Suzuki et al. 1999
Etymology: Ru.bri.mo.nas. L. adj. ruber -bra -brum, red; L. fem. n. monas, monad, unit; N.L. fem. n. Rubrimonas, reddish monad
Gender: feminine (stem: Rubrimonad-)
Type species: Rubrimonas cliftonensis Suzuki et al. 1999
Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS
Valid publication:
Suzuki T, Muroga Y, Takahama M, Shiba T, Nishimura Y. Rubrimonas cliftonensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an aerobic bacteriochlorophyll-containing bacterium isolated from a saline lake. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:201-205. 
IJSEM list:
Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 49, part 1 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:343-344.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name
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Notes:
- 🧕 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Rhodobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family I. Rhodobacteraceae fam. 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. 161.
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🧔 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: CGMCC: 1; CIP: 1; NBRC: 1; DSM: 1; LMG: 1; JCM: 1.
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 2
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status Rubrimonas cliftonensis Suzuki et al. 1999 validly published under the ICNP correct name "Rubrimonas shengliensis" Cai et al. 2011 not validly published preferred name
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Parent taxon: Paracoccaceae Liang et al. 2022
Assigned by:
Goker M. Filling the gaps: missing taxon names at the ranks of class, order and family. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5638.
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Record number: 517440
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