Name: Stenotrophomonas Palleroni and Bradbury 1993
Etymology: Gr. adj. stenos, narrow; Gr. masc./fem. n. trophos, feeder, rearer, one who feeds; L. fem. n. monas, a unit, monad; N.L. fem. n. Stenotrophomonas, a unit feeding on few substrates
Type species: Stenotrophomonas maltophilia (Hugh 1981) Palleroni and Bradbury 1993
Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS
Valid publication:
Palleroni NJ, Bradbury JF. Stenotrophomonas, a new bacterial genus for Xanthomonas maltophilia (Hugh 1980) Swings et al. 1983. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1993; 43:606-609.
IJSEM list:
Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 43, part 3 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1993; 43:866.
Nomenclatural status: validly published
Taxonomic status: correct name
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 16
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 18
Total number of child taxa: 20
Parent taxon: Lysobacteraceae Christensen and Cook 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)
Assigned by:
Naushad S, Adeolu M, Wong S, Sohail M, Schellhorn HE, Gupta RS. A phylogenomic and molecular marker based taxonomic framework for the order Xanthomonadales: proposal to transfer the families Algiphilaceae and Solimonadaceae to the order Nevskiales ord. nov. and to create a new family within the order Xanthomonadales, the family Rhodanobacteraceae fam. nov., containing the genus Rhodanobacter and its closest relatives. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2015; 107:467-485.
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Record number: 516670