Genus Sphingobium

Name: Sphingobium Takeuchi et al. 2001

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: N.L. n. sphingosinum, sphingosine; from Gr. gen. n. sphingos, of sphinx; from suff. -ine; N.L. pref. sphingo-, pertaining to sphingosine; Gr. masc. n. bios, life; N.L. neut. n. Sphingobium, sphingosine-containing life

Gender: neuter

Type species: Sphingobium yanoikuyae (Yabuuchi et al. 1990) Takeuchi et al. 2001

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Takeuchi M, Hamana K, Hiraishi A. Proposal of the genus Sphingomonas sensu stricto and three new genera, Sphingobium, Novosphingobium and Sphingopyxis, on the basis of phylogenetic and chemotaxonomic analyses. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1405-1417.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 51, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1621-1623.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

Emendations:
- Li et al. 2013 Li L, Liu H, Shi Z, Wang G. Sphingobium cupriresistens sp. nov., a copper-resistant bacterium isolated from copper mine soil, and emended description of the genus Sphingobium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:604-609. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1581-1583.
  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 Sphingomonas Yabuuchi et al. 1990. Publication: Yabuuchi E, Yano I, Oyaizu H, Hashimoto Y, Ezaki T, Yamamoto H. Proposals of Sphingomonas paucimobilis gen. nov. and comb. nov., Sphingomonas parapaucimobilis sp. nov., Sphingomonas yanoikuyae sp. nov., Sphingomonas adhaesiva sp. nov., Sphingomonas capsulata comb. nov., and two genospecies of the genus Sphingomonas. Microbiol Immunol 1990; 34:99-119.
- Sphingobium is a neo-Latin noun in the neuter gender, not in the feminine gender as cited by Takeuchi et al. 2001.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 42
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 52
Total number of child taxa: 57

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Sphingobium abikonense Kumari et al. 2009	validly published	correct name
Sphingobium algicola Lee and Jeon 2017	validly published	synonym
Sphingobium algorifonticola Chen et al. 2020	validly published	correct name
Sphingobium amiense Ushiba et al. 2003	validly published	correct name
Sphingobium aquiterrae Révész et al. 2018	validly published	correct name
Sphingobium aromaticiconvertens Wittich et al. 2007	validly published	correct name
"Sphingobium aromaticivastans" Nguyen and Kim 2019	not validly published
Sphingobium baderi Kaur et al. 2013	validly published	correct name
Sphingobium barthaii Maeda et al. 2015	validly published	synonym
Sphingobium bisphenolivorans Qin et al. 2020	validly published	correct name
Sphingobium boeckii Chen et al. 2013	validly published	correct name
Sphingobium chinhatense Dadhwal et al. 2009	validly published	synonym
Sphingobium chlorophenolicum (Nohynek et al. 1996) Takeuchi et al. 2001	validly published	correct name
"Sphingobium chungangianum" Huq 2019	not validly published
Sphingobium chungbukense (Kim et al. 2000) Pal et al. 2005	validly published	correct name
Sphingobium cloacae (Fujii et al. 2001) Prakash and Lal 2006	validly published	correct name
Sphingobium cupriresistens Li et al. 2013	validly published	correct name
Sphingobium czechense Niharika et al. 2013	validly published	synonym
Sphingobium endophyticum corrig. Zhu et al. 2015	validly published	correct name
Sphingobium endophyticus (sic) Zhu et al. 2015	misspelling	synonym
Sphingobium estronivorans Qin et al. 2020	validly published	correct name
Sphingobium faniae Guo et al. 2010	validly published	correct name
Sphingobium fluviale Sheu et al. 2020	validly published	correct name
Sphingobium fontiphilum Sheu et al. 2013	validly published	correct name
Sphingobium francense Pal et al. 2005	validly published	synonym
Sphingobium fuliginis Prakash and Lal 2006	validly published	correct name
Sphingobium herbicidovorans (Zipper et al. 1997) Takeuchi et al. 2001	validly published	correct name
Sphingobium hydrophobicum Chen et al. 2016	validly published	synonym
Sphingobium indicum Pal et al. 2005	validly published	correct name
Sphingobium japonicum Pal et al. 2005	validly published	synonym
Sphingobium jiangsuense Zhang et al. 2012	validly published	correct name
Sphingobium lactosutens Kumari et al. 2009	validly published	correct name
Sphingobium limneticum Chen et al. 2013	validly published	correct name
Sphingobium lucknowense Garg et al. 2012	validly published	synonym
Sphingobium mellinum Francis et al. 2014	validly published	correct name
Sphingobium naphthae Chaudhary et al. 2017	validly published	correct name
Sphingobium olei Young et al. 2007	validly published	correct name
Sphingobium paulinellae Lee and Jeon 2017	validly published	synonym
Sphingobium phenoxybenzoativorans Cai et al. 2015	validly published	correct name
Sphingobium pinisoli Lee et al. 2019	validly published	correct name
Sphingobium qiguonii Yan et al. 2010	validly published	correct name
Sphingobium quisquiliarum Bala et al. 2010	validly published	correct name
Sphingobium rhizovicinum Young et al. 2008	validly published	correct name
Sphingobium scionense Liang and Lloyd-Jones 2010	validly published	correct name
"Sphingobium soli" Du et al. 2015	not validly published
Sphingobium suberifaciens (van Bruggen et al. 1990) Chen et al. 2013	validly published	synonym
Sphingobium subterraneum Lee et al. 2015	validly published	correct name
Sphingobium sufflavum Sheu et al. 2013	validly published	correct name
Sphingobium terrigena Park et al. 2019	validly published	correct name
"Sphingobium tyrosinilyticum" Huq et al. 2018	not validly published
Sphingobium ummariense Singh and Lal 2009	validly published	correct name
Sphingobium vermicomposti Vaz-Moreira et al. 2009	validly published	correct name
Sphingobium vulgare Baek et al. 2010	validly published	correct name
Sphingobium wenxiniae Wang et al. 2011	validly published	correct name
Sphingobium xanthum Francis et al. 2014	validly published	correct name
Sphingobium xenophagum (Stolz et al. 2000) Pal et al. 2006	validly published	correct name
Sphingobium yanoikuyae (Yabuuchi et al. 1990) Takeuchi et al. 2001	validly published	correct name

Parent taxon: Sphingomonadaceae Kosako et al. 2000

Assigned by: Chen H, Jogler M, Rohde M, Klenk HP, Busse HJ, Tindall BJ, Sproer C, Overmann J. Sphingobium limneticum sp. nov. and Sphingobium boeckii sp. nov., two freshwater planktonic members of the family Sphingomonadaceae, and reclassification of Sphingomonas suberifaciens as Sphingobium suberifaciens comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:735-743.

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