Genus Ventrimonas

Name: Ventrimonas Hitch et al. 2025

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ven.tri’mo.nas. L. masc. n. venter, the belly; L. fem. n. monas, a monad; N.L. fem. n. Ventrimonas, a microbe associated with the belly (intestines/faeces)

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Ventrimonad-), wen-TRI-mo-nas

Type species: Ventrimonas faecis Hitch et al. 2025

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

Effective publication: Hitch TCA, Masson JM, Pauvert C, Bosch J, Nuchtern S, Treichel NS, Baloh M, Razavi S, Afrizal A, Kousetzi N, et al. HiBC: a publicly available collection of bacterial strains isolated from the human gut. Nat Commun 2025; 16:4203. 🇩🇪

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 225. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6863.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Notes:
- 😡 This taxon name is a homonym of "Candidatus Ventrimonas" Gilroy et al. 2021.
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 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: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Ventrimonas faecis Hitch et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Lachnospiraceae Rainey 2010

Assigned by: Hitch TCA, Masson JM, Pauvert C, Bosch J, Nuchtern S, Treichel NS, Baloh M, Razavi S, Afrizal A, Kousetzi N, et al. HiBC: a publicly available collection of bacterial strains isolated from the human gut. Nat Commun 2025; 16:4203. 🇩🇪

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Record number: 65582

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Genus Ventrimonas