Genus Saccharophagus

Name: Saccharophagus Ekborg et al. 2005

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: Sac.cha.ro’pha.gus. Gr. neut. n. sakcharon, sugar; from Gr. masc./fem. adj. suff. -phagos, glutton; N.L. masc. n. Saccharophagus, sugar-devourer

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Saccharophag-), sak-k^ha-RO-p^ha-gus

Type species: Saccharophagus degradans Ekborg et al. 2005

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Ekborg NA, Gonzalez JM, Howard MB, Taylor LE, Hutcheson SW, Weiner RM. Saccharophagus degradans gen. nov., sp. nov., a versatile marine degrader of complex polysaccharides. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1545-1549. 🇺🇸

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 55, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:2239-2241.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Alteromonadaceae Ivanova and Mikhailov 2001. 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. 🇩🇪
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Sacharophagus".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: ATCC: 1; DSM: 1.

Subdivision:

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: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Saccharophagus degradans Ekborg et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Cellvibrionaceae Spring et al. 2015

Assigned by: Spring S, Scheuner C, Goker M, Klenk HP. A taxonomic framework for emerging groups of ecologically important marine gammaproteobacteria based on the reconstruction of evolutionary relationships using genome-scale data. Front Microbiol 2015; 6:281. 🇩🇪

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