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Genus Thalassococcus
Name: Thalassococcus Lee et al. 2007
Etymology: Tha.las.so.coc’cus. Gr. fem. n. thalassa, the ocean; N.L. masc. n. coccus, grain; from Gr. masc. n. kokkos, berry, coccus; N.L. masc. n. Thalassococcus, coccus from the ocean
Gender, pronunciation: masculine (stem: Thalassococc-), tha-las-so-KOK-kus
Type species: Thalassococcus halodurans Lee et al. 2007
Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS
Valid publication:
Lee OO, Tsoi MM, Li X, Wong PK, Qian PY. Thalassococcus halodurans gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel halotolerant member of the Roseobacter clade isolated from the marine sponge Halichondria panicea at Friday Harbor, USA. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1919-1924. 
IJSEM list:
Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2451-2452.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name
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Notes:
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🧕 Lee et al. (2007) assigned this genus to the family Rhodobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006.
Publication:
Lee OO, Tsoi MM, Li X, Wong PK, Qian PY. Thalassococcus halodurans gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel halotolerant member of the Roseobacter clade isolated from the marine sponge Halichondria panicea at Friday Harbor, USA. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1919-1924.
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Thalasscoccus".
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: KCTC: 3; MCCC: 2; DSM: 2; NRRL: 1; CCUG: 1; JCM: 1; CGMCC: 1.
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🧍 The noun coccus is a "N.L. n.", not a "L. n." as cited in the paper by Lee et al. 2007.
Publication:
Euzeby JP. List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:590-592.
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🧕 Lee et al. (2007) assigned this genus to the family Rhodobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006.
Publication:
Lee OO, Tsoi MM, Li X, Wong PK, Qian PY. Thalassococcus halodurans gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel halotolerant member of the Roseobacter clade isolated from the marine sponge Halichondria panicea at Friday Harbor, USA. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1919-1924.
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 4
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 4
Total number of child taxa: 4
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status Thalassococcus arenae Weerawongwiwat et al. 2024 validly published under the ICNP correct name Thalassococcus halodurans Lee et al. 2007 validly published under the ICNP correct name Thalassococcus lentus Park et al. 2013 validly published under the ICNP correct name Thalassococcus profundi Yu et al. 2019 validly published under the ICNP correct name
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Parent taxon: Roseobacteraceae Liang et al. 2021
Assigned by:
Liang KYH, Orata FD, Boucher YF, Case RJ. Roseobacters in a Sea of Poly- and Paraphyly: Whole Genome-Based Taxonomy of the Family Rhodobacteraceae and the Proposal for the Split of the "Roseobacter Clade" Into a Novel Family, Roseobacteraceae fam. nov. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:683109.
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Record number: 517632
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