Name: Teredinibacter Distel et al. 2002

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Te.re.di.ni.bac’ter. N.L. fem. pl. n. Teredinidae, a family of wood-boring bivalve molluscs (shipworms); N.L. masc. n. bacter, equivalent of bacterium, a staff or rod; N.L. masc. n. Teredinibacter, a rod isolated from members of the family Teredinidae

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Teredinibacter-), te-re-di-ni-BAK-ter

Type species: Teredinibacter turnerae Distel et al. 2002

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Distel DL, Morrill W, MacLaren-Toussaint N, Franks D, Waterbury J. Teredinibacter turnerae gen. nov., sp. nov., a dinitrogen-fixing, cellulolytic, endosymbiotic gamma-proteobacterium isolated from the gills of wood-boring molluscs (Bivalvia: Teredinidae). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:2261-2269. 🇺🇸

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 52, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:375-376.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Teredinobacter" Ahuja 2000	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Emendations:
  • Altamia et al. 2020 Altamia MA, Shipway JR, Stein D, Betcher MA, Fung JM, Jospin G, Eisen J, Haygood MG, Distel DL. Teredinibacter waterburyi sp. nov., a marine, cellulolytic endosymbiotic bacterium isolated from the gills of the wood-boring mollusc Bankia setacea (Bivalvia: Teredinidae) and emended description of the genus Teredinibacter. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:2388-2394. 🇺🇸 Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 70, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4050-4060.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
  • Altamia et al. 2021 Altamia MA, Shipway JR, Stein D, Betcher MA, Fung JM, Jospin G, Eisen J, Haygood MG, Distel DL. Teredinibacter haidensis sp. nov., Teredinibacter purpureus sp. nov. and Teredinibacter franksiae sp. nov., marine, cellulolytic endosymbiotic bacteria isolated from the gills of the wood-boring mollusc Bankia setacea (Bivalvia: Teredinidae) and emended description of the genus Teredinibacter. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4627. 🇺🇸 Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 71, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4766.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 3 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the order Alteromonadales Bowman and McMeekin 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. 🇩🇪
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus "Teredinobacter" Ahuja 2000. Publication: Ahuja S. Bioprocess engineering of Teredinobacter turnirae: Effect of morphology on metabolic activities of a marine bacterium. Dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 2000.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Teredininbacter"; "Terendinibacter".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Altamia et al. (2021). 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: ATCC: 5; KCTC: 4; DSM: 1.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1". — 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.
  • 🧍 Teredinibacter Distel et al. 2002 was previously known as "Teredinobacter" Waterbury et al. 1989.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 5
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 5
Total number of child taxa: 5

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Teredinibacter franksiae Altamia et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Teredinibacter haidensis Altamia et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Teredinibacter purpureus Altamia et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Teredinibacter turnerae Distel et al. 2002	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Teredinibacter waterburyi Altamia et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Cellvibrionaceae 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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