Genus Tropicibacter

Name: Tropicibacter Harwati et al. 2009

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Trop.ic.i.bac.ter. L. masc. adj. tropicus, tropical, pertaining to the tropical zone of the Earth; N.L. masc. n. bacter, rod; from Gr. neut. dim. n. baktêrion, rod; N.L. masc. n. Tropicibacter, a rod belonging to the tropical zone

Gender: masculine (stem: Tropicibacter-)

Type species: Tropicibacter naphthalenivorans Harwati et al. 2009

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Harwati TU, Kasai Y, Kodama Y, Susilaningsih D, Watanabe K. Tropicibacter naphthalenivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-degrading bacterium isolated from Semarang Port in Indonesia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:392-396.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:926-927.

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 2 species from the genus.
  - As of 2021-07-04 this emendation was not yet included in an IJSEM List of Changes in Taxonomic Opinion.

Notes:
- Harwati et al. (2009) assigned this genus to the family Rhodobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Harwati TU, Kasai Y, Kodama Y, Susilaningsih D, Watanabe K. Tropicibacter naphthalenivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-degrading bacterium isolated from Semarang Port in Indonesia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:392-396.
- Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Lucena et al. (2013). 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: KCTC: 6; DSM: 5; JCM: 3; CECT: 3; CIP: 1; CICC: 1; LMG: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 5
Total number of child taxa: 8

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
"Tropicibacter alexandrii" Wang et al. 2020	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
Tropicibacter litoreus Lucena et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
Tropicibacter mediterraneus Lucena et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
Tropicibacter multivorans Lucena et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
Tropicibacter naphthalenivorans Harwati et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Tropicibacter phthalicicus corrig. Iwaki et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
Tropicibacter phthalicus Iwaki et al. 2012	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
"Tropicibacter varians" (Hahnke et al. 2013) Liang et al. 2021	not validly published	synonym (and no standing)

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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