Name: Sinobacterium Su et al. 2013

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Si.no.bac.te’ri.um. M.L. fem. n. Sina, China; N.L. neut. n. bacterium, a small staff or rod and, in biology, a bacterium; N.L. neut. n. Sinobacterium, a bacterium from China

Gender, pronunciation: neuter (stem: Sinobacteri-), si-no-bak-TE-ri-um

Type species: Sinobacterium caligoides Su et al. 2013

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Su J, Zhou Y, Lai Q, Li X, Dong P, Yang X, Zhang B, Zhang J, Zheng X, Tian Y, et al. Sinobacterium caligoides gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Oceanospirillaceae isolated from the South China Sea, and emended description of Amphritea japonica. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2095-2100.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3135-3137.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family "Sinobacteriaceae" Flores-Félix et al. 2025. Publication: Flores-Felix JD, Garcia-Fraile P, Saati-Santamaria Z. Harmony in diversity: Reorganizing the families within the order Pseudomonadales. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2025; 0:108321.
  • 🧕 Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Oceanospirillaceae Garrity et al. 2005. 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: "Nobacterium".
  • 😢 The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. Using the term "phylogenetic data" (or equivalent) for sequence data is not advocated. Whether taxa can have "members" is debatable. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details. Publication: Göker M. What can genome analysis offer for bacteria? In: Bridge P, Smith D, Stackebrandt E (eds), Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi, CAB International, Wallingford, 2021, p. 255-281.
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is -0.01582 (N = 2).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: CAIM: 1; CCTCC: 1; LMG: 1; CECT: 1; MCCC: 1; DSM: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Sinobacterium caligoides Su et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sinobacterium norvegicum Diéguez et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Spongiibacteraceae 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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