Name: Stenotrophomonas Palleroni and Bradbury 1993

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ste.no.tro.pho’mo.nas. Gr. masc. adj. stenos, narrow; Gr. masc./fem. adj. trophos, feeder, rearer, one who feeds; L. fem. n. monas, a unit, monad; N.L. fem. n. Stenotrophomonas, a unit feeding on few substrates

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Stenotrophomonad-), ste-no-tro-P^HO-mo-nas

Type species: Stenotrophomonas maltophilia (Hugh 1981 ex Hugh and Ryschenkow 1961) Palleroni and Bradbury 1993

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

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 under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 2

• Emendations:
  • Ouattara et al. 2017 Ouattara AS, Le Mer J, Joseph M, Macarie H. Transfer of Pseudomonas pictorum Gray and Thornton 1928 to genus Stenotrophomonas as Stenotrophomonas pictorum comb. nov., and emended description of the genus Stenotrophomonas. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1894-1900. 🇫🇷 Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:3137-3139.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the family "Xanthomonadaceae". Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166. 🇺🇸
  • 🧕 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Xanthomonadaceae Saddler and Bradbury 2005. Publication: Saddler GS, Bradbury JF. Family I. Xanthomonadaceae fam. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part B (The Gammaproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 63. 🇺🇸
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Pseudomonas Migula 1894 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Hugh R. Pseudomonas maltophilia sp. nov., nom. rev. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1981; 31:195.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Xanthomonas Dowson 1939 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Swings J, De Vos P, Van Den Mooter M, De Ley J. Transfer of Pseudomonas maltophilia Hugh 1981 to the genus Xanthomonas as Xanthomonas maltophilia (Hugh 1981) comb. nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1983; 33:409-413. 🇧🇪
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Oligotrophomonas"; "Smalotrophomonas"; "Srenotrophomonas"; "Stenatrophomonas"; "Stenolrophomonas"; "Stenorophomonas"; "Stenothophomonas"; "Stenothrophomonas"; "Stenotrofomonas"; "Stenotrohomonas"; "Stenotrophomona"; "Stenotrophomonus"; "Stenotrophonomonas"; "Stenotropomonas"; "Stentophomonas"; "Stonotrophomonas"; "Strenotrophomonas"; "Strenoytophomonas".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Van den Mooter and Swings (1990). 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: LMG: 18; DSM: 18; JCM: 16; CCUG: 15; ATCC: 11; KCTC: 8; CIP: 7; NCTC: 5; NCIMB: 5; ICMP: 5.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 2". — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 27
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 29
Total number of child taxa: 42

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Stenotrophomonas acidaminiphila Assih et al. 2002	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Stenotrophomonas africana Drancourt et al. 1997	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    "Stenotrophomonas aracearum" Chuang et al. 2024	not validly published	preferred name
    Stenotrophomonas bentonitica Sánchez-Castro et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Stenotrophomonas beteli (Ragunathan 1928) Nguyen et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Stenotrophomonas capsici Qiu et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Stenotrophomonas chelatiphaga Kaparullina et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Stenotrophomonas cyclobalanopsidis" Bian et al. 2020	not validly published	preferred name
    Stenotrophomonas daejeonensis Lee et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Stenotrophomonas dokdonensis Yoon et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Stenotrophomonas forensis Nguyen et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Stenotrophomonas geniculata (Wright 1895) Rudra and Gupta 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Stenotrophomonas geniculata" (Wright 1895) Saati-Santamaría et al. 2021	not validly published	synonym
    Stenotrophomonas ginsengisoli Kim et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Stenotrophomonas goyi" Torres et al. 2023	not validly published	preferred name
    Stenotrophomonas hibiscicola (Moniz 1963) Nguyen et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Stenotrophomonas humi Heylen et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Stenotrophomonas indicatrix Weber et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Stenotrophomonas koreensis Yang et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Stenotrophomonas lactitubi Weber et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Stenotrophomonas lacuserhaii Deng et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Stenotrophomonas maltophilia (Hugh 1981 ex Hugh and Ryschenkow 1961) Palleroni and Bradbury 1993	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Stenotrophomonas mexicanensis" Ortiz-Álvarez et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name
    Stenotrophomonas mori Deng et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Stenotrophomonas muris Afrizal et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Stenotrophomonas nematodicola" Wei et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name
    Stenotrophomonas nitritireducens Finkmann et al. 2000	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Stenotrophomonas oahuensis" Chuang et al. 2024	not validly published	preferred name
    "Stenotrophomonas panacihumi" Yi et al. 2010	not validly published	preferred name
    Stenotrophomonas pavanii Ramos et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Stenotrophomonas pennii Pallen 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Stenotrophomonas pennii" Gilroy et al. 2021	not validly published	synonym
    Stenotrophomonas pictorum (Gray and Thornton 1928) Ouattara et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Stenotrophomonas pigmentata Li et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Stenotrophomonas rhizophila Wolf et al. 2002	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Stenotrophomonas riyadhensis Macori et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Stenotrophomonas sepilia" Gautam et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name
    Stenotrophomonas terrae Heylen et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Stenotrophomonas thermophila" Chauviat et al. 2025	not validly published	synonym
    "Stenotrophomonas tuberculopleuritidis" Yu et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name
    Stenotrophomonas tumulicola Handa et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Stenotrophomonas veracruzanensis" Ortiz-Álvarez et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name

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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