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Genus Xenophilus
Name: Xenophilus Blümel et al. 2001
Etymology: Xe.no’phi.lus. Gr. masc. n. xenos, foreign; Gr. masc. adj. philos, friend; N.L. masc. n. Xenophilus, friend of foreign compounds, referring to the isolation of the type species by enrichment on azo dyes
Gender: masculine (stem: Xenophil-)
Type species: Xenophilus azovorans Blümel et al. 2001
Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS
Valid publication:
Blumel S, Busse HJ, Stolz A, Kampfer P. Xenophilus azovorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a soil bacterium that is able to degrade azo dyes of the Orange II type. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1831-1837. 
IJSEM list:
Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 51, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1947-1948.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name
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Notes:
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Xhenophilus".
- 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.06419 (N = 4).
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 2; NCIMB: 1; ATCC: 1.
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 3
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status Xenophilus aerolatus Kim et al. 2010 validly published under the ICNP correct name Xenophilus arseniciresistens Li et al. 2014 validly published under the ICNP correct name Xenophilus azovorans Blümel et al. 2001 validly published under the ICNP correct name
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Parent taxon: Comamonadaceae Willems et al. 1991
Assigned by:
Blumel S, Busse HJ, Stolz A, Kampfer P. Xenophilus azovorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a soil bacterium that is able to degrade azo dyes of the Orange II type. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1831-1837.
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Record number: 516933
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