Name: Azoarcus pumilus Fu et al. 2019

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: pu’mi.lus. L. masc. adj. pumilus, small or tiny, referring to the tiny colonies formed by this organism

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … PU-mi-lus, masculine

Type strain: KCTC 62157; MCCC 1K03430; SY39

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16S rRNA gene: KY861745 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Fu GY, Yu XY, Yu XD, Zhao Z, Chen C, Wang RJ, Wu M, Zhang XQ. Azoarcus pumilus sp. nov., isolated from seawater in Sanya, China. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:1459-1464. 🇨🇳

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 69, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:2177-2178.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Pseudazoarcus pumilus (Fu et al. 2019) Huang et al. 2022

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Aromatoleum pumilum (Fu et al. 2019) Liao et al. 2021	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Pseudazoarcus pumilus (Fu et al. 2019) Huang et al. 2022	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 😢 The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. Contrasting the term "chemotaxonomic" with "phenotypic" is not recommended. Using the term "phylogenetic data" (or equivalent) for sequence data is not advocated. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details. Publication: Göker M. What can genome analysis offer for bacteria? In: Bridge P, Smith D, Stackebrandt E (eds), Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi, CAB International, Wallingford, 2021, p. 255-281. 🇬🇧
  • ❗ Azoarcus pumilus is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Azoarcus.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.

Parent taxon: Azoarcus Reinhold-Hurek et al. 1993

Assigned by: Fu GY, Yu XY, Yu XD, Zhao Z, Chen C, Wang RJ, Wu M, Zhang XQ. Azoarcus pumilus sp. nov., isolated from seawater in Sanya, China. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:1459-1464. 🇨🇳

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