Genus "Teredinobacter"

Name: "Teredinobacter" Ahuja 2000

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: Te.re.di.no.bac’ter. N.L. masc. n. bacter, rod; N.L. masc. n. Teredinobacter

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Teredinobacter-), te-re-di-no-BAK-ter

Type species: "Teredinobacter turnirae" Ahuja 2000

Original 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.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Teredinibacter Distel et al. 2002

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Teredinibacter Distel et al. 2002	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🚂 For the type species of this genus another name is in use, which is affiliated with the genus Teredinibacter Distel et al. 2002. 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. 🇺🇸
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Terdinobacter".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 1; ATCC: 1.
  • 🧍 While the authors did not explicitly propose this taxon name, they did not provide a proper citation of the authority of the name either.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Teredinobacter turnirae" Ahuja 2000	not validly published	synonym

Parent taxon: Cellvibrionaceae Spring et al. 2015

Assigned by: Freese HM, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Sarda Carbasse J, Afolayan AO, Goker M. TYGS and LPSN in 2025: a Global Core Biodata Resource for genome-based classification and nomenclature of prokaryotes within DSMZ Digital Diversity. Nucleic Acids Res 2026; 54:D884-D891. 🇩🇪

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