Name: Xylanimonas Rivas et al. 2003

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Xy.la.ni’mo.nas. N.L. neut. adj. xylanum, xylan, a polysaccharide; L. fem. n. monas, a unit, a monad; N.L. fem. n. Xylanimonas, a monad from xylan

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Xylanimonad-), ksy-la-NI-mo-nas

Type species: Xylanimonas cellulosilytica Rivas et al. 2003

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Rivas R, Sanchez M, Trujillo ME, Zurdo-Pineiro JL, Mateos PF, Martinez-Molina E, Velazquez E. Xylanimonas cellulosilytica gen. nov., sp. nov., a xylanolytic bacterium isolated from a decayed tree (Ulmus nigra). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:99-103. 🇪🇸

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 53, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:629-630.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Xylanimicrobium Stackebrandt and Schumann 2004	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Xylanibacterium Rivas et al. 2004	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Emendations:
  • Heo et al. 2020 Heo J, Cho H, Hamada M, Kim JS, Hong SB, Kim SJ, Kwon SW. Xylanimonas allomyrinae sp. nov. isolated from the gut of larva of Allomyrina dichotoma, reclassification of Xylanibacterium ulmi as Xylanimonas ulmi comb. nov. and Xylanimicrobium pachnodae as Xylanimonas pachnodae comb. nov., and emendation of the genus Xylanimonas. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:1924-1930. 🇰🇷 Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 70, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3583-3587.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 3 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Xylanomonas".
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Heo et al. (2020). 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 phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.05431 (N = 11).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: KACC: 4; JCM: 4; DSM: 3; NBRC: 2; LMG: 2; CECT: 2; MCC: 1; NCCB: 1; KCTC: 1.
  • 🧍 The gender of the genus name Xylanimonas is not given in the paper by Rivas et al. 2003. According to Rule 65(2), Xylanimonas must be in the feminine gender. Publication: Oren A, Arahal DR, Christensen H, Goker M, Manaia CM, Moore ERB. International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Prokaryotic Code (2025 Revision). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2026; 76:6979. 🇮🇱

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 5
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 5
Total number of child taxa: 6

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Xylanimonas allomyrinae Heo et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Xylanimonas cellulosilytica Rivas et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Xylanimonas oleitrophica" Nagkirti et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name
    Xylanimonas pachnodae (Cazemier et al. 2004) Heo et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Xylanimonas protaetiae Heo et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Xylanimonas ulmi (Rivas et al. 2004) Heo et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Promicromonosporaceae Rainey et al. 1997

Assigned by: Zhi XY, Li WJ, Stackebrandt E. An update of the structure and 16S rRNA gene sequence-based definition of higher ranks of the class Actinobacteria, with the proposal of two new suborders and four new families and emended descriptions of the existing higher taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:589-608. 🇨🇳

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