Genus Thalassobius

Name: Thalassobius Arahal et al. 2005

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Tha.las.so’bi.us Gr. fem. n. thalassa, the sea; Gr. masc. n. bios, life; N.L. masc. n. Thalassobius, life form of the sea

Gender: masculine

Type species: Thalassobius mediterraneus Arahal et al. 2005

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Arahal DR, Macian MC, Garay E, Pujalte MJ. Thalassobius mediterraneus gen. nov., sp. nov., and reclassification of Ruegeria gelatinovorans as Thalassobius gelatinovorus comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:2371-2376.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 55, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:319-321.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Litorimicrobium Jin et al. 2011	heterotypic synonym, validly published

Emendations:
- Hördt et al. 2020 Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.
  Notes:
  - Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 2 new species in the genus.
  - As of 2020-04-15 this emendation was not yet included in an IJSEM List of Changes in Taxonomic Opinion.

Notes:
- Recommended reviewers for taxonomic proposals in this group are the corresponding authors of Arahal et al. (2019), Park et al. (2014).

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 6
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 11
Total number of child taxa: 11

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Thalassobius abyssi Nogi et al. 2016	validly published	synonym
Thalassobius activus Pujalte et al. 2018	validly published	synonym
Thalassobius aestuarii Yi and Chun 2007	validly published	synonym
Thalassobius aquaeponti Park et al. 2015	validly published	synonym
Thalassobius autumnalis Pujalte et al. 2018	validly published	correct name
Thalassobius gelatinovorus (Rüger and Höfle 1992) Arahal et al. 2006	validly published	correct name
Thalassobius litoralis (Iwaki et al. 2013) Hördt et al. 2020	validly published	correct name
Thalassobius litorarius Park et al. 2016	validly published	correct name
Thalassobius maritimus Park et al. 2012	validly published	synonym
Thalassobius mediterraneus Arahal et al. 2005	validly published	correct name
Thalassobius taeanensis (Jin et al. 2011) Hördt et al. 2020	validly published	correct name

Parent taxon: Rhodobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006

Assigned by: Park I, Cha IT, Seo MJ. Thalassobius litorarius sp. nov., isolated from a tidal flat. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1666-1672.

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