Name: Faunimonas pinastri Proença et al. 2022

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: pi.nas’tri. L. gen. masc. n. pinastri, of a wild pine, of Pinus pinaster

Gender: feminine

Type strain: A52C2; CECT 8949; LMG 29042; UCCCB 130

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16S rRNA gene: KJ654844 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Proenca DN, Whitman WB, Shapiro N, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Morais PV. Faunimonas pinastri gen. nov., sp. nov., an endophyte from a pine tree of the family Pleomorphomonadaceae, class Alphaproteobacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5623.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 72, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5799.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Faunimonas Proença et al. 2022. Publication: Proenca DN, Whitman WB, Shapiro N, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Morais PV. Faunimonas pinastri gen. nov., sp. nov., an endophyte from a pine tree of the family Pleomorphomonadaceae, class Alphaproteobacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5623.
  • 😢 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.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Faunimonas Proença et al. 2022

Assigned by: Proenca DN, Whitman WB, Shapiro N, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Morais PV. Faunimonas pinastri gen. nov., sp. nov., an endophyte from a pine tree of the family Pleomorphomonadaceae, class Alphaproteobacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5623.

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