Name: Trichloromonas Waite et al. 2025

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Tri.chlo.ro’mo.nas. Gr. adv. tris, three; Gr. masc. adj. chlôros, greenish-yellow (chlorine); L. fem. n. monas, monad; N.L. fem. n. Trichloromonas, trichloroethene-reducing monad

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Trichloromonad-), tri-k^hlo-RO-mo-nas

Type species: Trichloromonas acetexigens (Finster et al. 1997) Waite et al. 2025

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Waite DW, Chuvochina M, Pelikan C, Parks DH, Yilmaz P, Wagner M, Loy A, Naganuma T, Nakai R, Whitman WB, et al. Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting major functional capabilities. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5972-6016. 🇳🇿

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 223. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6699.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Trichloromonadaceae Waite et al. 2025. Publication: Waite DW, Chuvochina M, Pelikan C, Parks DH, Yilmaz P, Wagner M, Loy A, Naganuma T, Nakai R, Whitman WB, et al. Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting major functional capabilities. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5972-6016. 🇳🇿
  • 🧕 Parte et al. (2020) assigned this genus to the family Desulfuromonadaceae corrig. Kuever et al. 2006. Publication: Parte AC, Sarda Carbasse J, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Reimer LC, Goker M. List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5607-5612. 🇩🇪
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Desulfuromonas Pfennig and Biebl 1977 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Finster K, Bak F, Pfennig N. Desulfuromonas acetexigens sp. nov., a dissimilatory sulfur-reducing eubacterium from anoxic freshwater sediments. Arch. Microbiol. 1994; 161:328-332. 🇩🇰
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 3; ATCC: 3.

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: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Trichloromonas acetexigens (Finster et al. 1997) Waite et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Trichloromonas chloroethenica" (Krumholz 1997) Waite et al. 2020	not validly published	synonym
    "Trichloromonas michiganensis" (Sung et al. 2009) Waite et al. 2020	not validly published	synonym

Parent taxon: Trichloromonadaceae Waite et al. 2025

Assigned by: Waite DW, Chuvochina M, Pelikan C, Parks DH, Yilmaz P, Wagner M, Loy A, Naganuma T, Nakai R, Whitman WB, et al. Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting major functional capabilities. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5972-6016. 🇳🇿

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