Genus Tritonibacter

Name: Tritonibacter Klotz et al. 2018

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Tri.to.ni.bac’ter. Gr. masc. n. Tritôn, Greek god of the sea, merman and son of Poseidon; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Tritonibacter, a Tritionian rod, referring to the marine habitat and more specifically to Triton’s composite upper body of a human combined with a fish tail, signifying the discrepancy in 16S rRNA gene phylogeny and genomic analysis of this novel bacterial genus

Gender: masculine (stem: Tritonibacter-)

Type species: Tritonibacter horizontis Klotz et al. 2018

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Klotz F, Brinkhoff T, Freese HM, Wietz M, Teske A, Simon M, Giebel HA. Tritonibacter horizontis gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the Rhodobacteraceae, isolated from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:736-744.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 68, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:1823-1824.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Emendations:
- Liang et al. 2021 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.
  Notes:
  - Emendation accompanied by the removal of 1 species from the genus.
  - As of 2021-07-02 this emendation was not yet included in an IJSEM List of Changes in Taxonomic Opinion.

Notes:
- The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Epibacterium Penesyan et al. 2013. Publication: 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.
- The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 4; KCTC: 3; LMG: 3; MCCC: 2; NBRC: 1; CECT: 1; CCUG: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 6
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 7
Total number of child taxa: 7

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Tritonibacter aquimaris Li et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Tritonibacter horizontis Klotz et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Tritonibacter litoralis Li et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Tritonibacter mobilis (Muramatsu et al. 2007) Hördt et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Tritonibacter multivorans (Lucena et al. 2012) Hördt et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Tritonibacter scottomollicae (Vandecandelaere et al. 2008) Hördt et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Tritonibacter ulvae (Penesyan et al. 2013) Hördt et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name	synonym

Parent taxon: Rhodobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006

Assigned by: Klotz F, Brinkhoff T, Freese HM, Wietz M, Teske A, Simon M, Giebel HA. Tritonibacter horizontis gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the Rhodobacteraceae, isolated from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:736-744.

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