Name: Rubrivivax Willems et al. 1991

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ru.bri.vi.vax. L. adj. ruber -bra -brum, red; L. adj. vivax, tenacious of life, long-lived, vivacious; N.L. masc. n. Rubrivivax, the red and long living (bacterium)

Gender: masculine (stem: Rubrivivac-)

Type species: Rubrivivax gelatinosus (Molisch 1907) Willems et al. 1991

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Willems A, Gillis M, De Ley J. Transfer of Rhodocyclus gelatinosus to Rubrivivax gelatinosus gen. nov., comb. nov., and phylogenetic relationships with Leptothrix, Sphaerotilus natans, Pseudomonas saccharophila, and Alcaligenes latus. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1991; 41:65-73.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 41, part 1 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:457-458.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Pseudaquabacterium Lu and Chen 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Emendations:
  • Liu et al. 2022 Liu Y, Du J, Pei T, Du H, Feng GD, Zhu H. Genome-based taxonomic classification of the closest-to-Comamonadaceae group supports a new family Sphaerotilaceae fam. nov. and taxonomic revisions. Syst Appl Microbiol 2022; 45:126352. Oren A, Göker M. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 37. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5696.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 2 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Comamonadaceae Willems et al. 1991. Publication: 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.
  • 🧕 Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the order Burkholderiales Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO. The SILVA and “all-species living tree project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; 42(D1):D643-D648.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus [Rhodocystis]. Publication: Molisch H. Die Purpurbakterien nach neuen Untersuchungen I-VII. G. Fischer, Jena, 1907.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Rhodopseudomonas Czurda and Maresch 1937 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: van Niel CB. THE CULTURE, GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY, MORPHOLOGY, AND CLASSIFICATION OF THE NON-SULFUR PURPLE AND BROWN BACTERIA. Bacteriol Rev 1944; 8:1-118.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Rhodocyclus Pfennig 1978 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: 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.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Rubrivivux"; "Rubriwiwax".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Sheu et al. (2020). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: CCUG: 3; ATCC: 2; DSM: 2; NBRC: 2; JCM: 2; BCRC: 2; KCTC: 2; IFO: 1; NCIMB: 1; CIP: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 5
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 5
Total number of child taxa: 5

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Rubrivivax albus Sheu et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Rubrivivax benzoatilyticus Ramana et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Rubrivivax gelatinosus (Molisch 1907) Willems et al. 1991	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Rubrivivax pictus (Hirose et al. 2020) Liu et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Rubrivivax rivuli (Sheu et al. 2019) Liu et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Sphaerotilaceae Liu et al. 2023

Assigned by: Lu H, Chen L. Ideonella margarita sp. nov., Ideonella lacteola sp. nov., Pseudaquabacterium inlustre sp. nov. and Pseudaquabacterium rugosum sp. nov., isolated from streams in China and re-examining the taxonomic status of all the genera within the family Sphaerotilaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6495.

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