Name: Thiomonas Moreira and Amils 1997

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Thi.o.mo.nas. Gr. neut. n. theîon, sulfur (Latin transliteration thium); L. fem. n. monas, a unit, monad; N.L. fem. n. Thiomonas, sulfur monad

Gender: feminine (stem: Thiomonad-)

Type species: Thiomonas intermedia (London 1963) Moreira and Amils 1997

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Moreira D, Amils R. Phylogeny of Thiobacillus cuprinus and other mixotrophic thiobacilli: proposal for Thiomonas gen. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:522-528.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 47, part 2 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:917-919.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Kelly et al. 2007 Kelly DP, Uchino Y, Huber H, Amils R, Wood AP. Reassessment of the phylogenetic relationships of Thiomonas cuprina. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2720-2724. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:313-314.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Moreira and Amils (1997) assigned this genus to the order "Burkholderiales". Publication: Moreira D, Amils R. Phylogeny of Thiobacillus cuprinus and other mixotrophic thiobacilli: proposal for Thiomonas gen. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:522-528.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Thiobacillus Beijerinck 1904 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: London JP. Thiobacillus intermedius nov. sp. A novel type of facultative autotroph. Archiv für Mikrobiologie 1963; 46:329-337.
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Kelly et al. (2007). 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: DSM: 8; NBRC: 5; JCM: 4; ATCC: 3; CIP: 3; IFO: 3; KCTC: 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.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 7
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 8
Total number of child taxa: 9

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Thiomonas arsenitoxydans Slyemi et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Thiomonas arsenivorans" Battaglia-Brunet et al. 2006	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    Thiomonas bhubaneswarensis Panda et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thiomonas cuprina Moreira and Amils 1997	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Thiomonas delicata (Katayama-Fujimura et al. 1984 ex Mizoguchi et al. 1976) Kelly and Wood 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thiomonas intermedia (London 1963) Moreira and Amils 1997	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thiomonas islandica Vésteinsdóttir et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thiomonas perometabolis (London and Rittenberg 1967) Moreira and Amils 1997	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thiomonas thermosulfata (Shooner et al. 1996) Moreira and Amils 1997	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Comamonadaceae Willems et al. 1991

Assigned by: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166.

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