Name: Terripilifer Liu et al. 2025

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ter.ri.pi’li.fer. L. fem. n. terra, earth; L. masc. n. pilus, a hair; L. masc. adj. suff. -fer, carrying, bearing; N.L. masc. n. Terripilifer, a bearer of pili from soil

Gender: masculine (stem: Terripilifer-)

Type species: Terripilifer ovatus Liu et al. 2025

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

Valid publication: Liu ZS, Wang KH, Wang XK, Cai M, Yang ML, Yang WK, Li DF, Liu SJ. Curvibacter soli sp. nov., Extensimonas soli sp. nov., Pseudarthrobacter naphthalenicus sp. nov. and Terripilifer ovatus gen. nov., sp. nov., four new species isolated from polluted soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6698.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is -0.05272 (N = 18).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 1; CGMCC: 1.

Subdivision:

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

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Terripilifer ovatus Liu et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Roseiarcaceae Kulichevskaya et al. 2014

Assigned by: Liu ZS, Wang KH, Wang XK, Cai M, Yang ML, Yang WK, Li DF, Liu SJ. Curvibacter soli sp. nov., Extensimonas soli sp. nov., Pseudarthrobacter naphthalenicus sp. nov. and Terripilifer ovatus gen. nov., sp. nov., four new species isolated from polluted soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6698.

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