Name: Syntrophomonas McInerney et al. 1982

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Syn.tro.pho.mo.nas. Gr. prep. syn, in company with, together with; Gr. masc./fem. adj. trophos, one who feeds; L. fem. n. monas, a unit, monad; N.L. fem. n. Syntrophomonas, monad which feeds together with (another species)

Gender: feminine (stem: Syntrophomonad-)

Type species: Syntrophomonas wolfei McInerney et al. 1982

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: McInerney MJ, Bryant MP, Hespell RB, Costerton JW. Syntrophomonas wolfei gen. nov. sp. nov., an Anaerobic, Syntrophic, Fatty Acid-Oxidizing Bacterium. Appl Environ Microbiol 1981; 41:1029-1039.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 8. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1982; 32:266-268.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Lorowitz et al. 1989 Lorowitz WH, Zhao H, Bryant MP. Syntrophomonas wolfei subsp. saponavida subsp. nov., a long-chain fatty-acid-degrading, anaerobic, syntrophic bacterium. Syntrophomonas wolfei subsp. wolfei subsp. nov. and emended descriptions of the genus and species. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1989; 39:122-126.
  • Wu et al. 2006 Wu C, Liu X, Dong X. Syntrophomonas cellicola sp. nov., a spore-forming syntrophic bacterium isolated from a distilled-spirit-fermenting cellar, and assignment of Syntrophospora bryantii to Syntrophomonas bryantii comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:2331-2335. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 56, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2-3.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the class Syntrophomonadia Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Syntrophomonadaceae Zhao et al. 1993. Publication: Zhao H, Yang D, Woese CR, Bryant MP. Assignment of fatty acid-beta-oxidizing syntrophic bacteria to Syntrophomonadaceae fam. nov. on the basis of 16S rRNA sequence analyses. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1993; 43:278-286.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order Syntrophomonadales Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the class Syntrophomonadia Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the order Syntrophomonadales Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Synthrophomonas"; "Syntrophomo"; "Syntrophomomas"; "Syntrophomona"; "Syntruphomonas"; "Sytrophomonas".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Wu et al. (2007). 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: DSM: 10; CGMCC: 3; JCM: 3; NBRC: 1.
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "SNMN" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer. Publication: Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 7
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 7
Total number of child taxa: 9

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Syntrophomonas bryantii" (Stieb and Schink 1985) Wu et al. 2006	not validly published	synonym (and no standing)
    Syntrophomonas cellicola Wu et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Syntrophomonas curvata Zhang et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Syntrophomonas erecta Zhang et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Syntrophomonas palmitatica Hatamoto et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Syntrophomonas saponavida" (Lorowitz et al. 1989) Wu et al. 2007	not validly published	synonym (and no standing)
    Syntrophomonas sapovorans Roy et al. 1987	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Syntrophomonas wolfei McInerney et al. 1982	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Syntrophomonas zehnderi Sousa et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Syntrophomonadaceae Zhao et al. 1993

Assigned by: Zhao H, Yang D, Woese CR, Bryant MP. Assignment of fatty acid-beta-oxidizing syntrophic bacteria to Syntrophomonadaceae fam. nov. on the basis of 16S rRNA sequence analyses. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1993; 43:278-286.

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