Name: Pseudoflavitalea ginsenosidimutans (Siddiqi and Im 2016) Lawson et al. 2020

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Pseudobacter ginsenosidimutans Siddiqi and Im 2016

Etymology: gin.se.no.si.di.mu’tans. N.L. neut. n. ginsenosidum, ginsenoside; L. pres. part. mutans, transforming, converting; N.L. part. adj. ginsenosidimutans, ginsenoside-converting

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 18116; Gsoil 221; KACC 14278

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: GQ339899 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Lawson PA, Patel NB, Mohammed A, Moore ERB, Lo AS, Sardi A, Davis JM, Doyle DA, Hui Y, Testerman T. Parapseudoflavitalea muciniphila gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Chitinophagaceae isolated from a human peritoneal tumour and reclassification of Pseudobacter ginsenosidimutans as Pseudoflavitalea ginsenosidimutans comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3639-3646.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 70, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4848-4850.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Pseudobacter ginsenosidimutans Siddiqi and Im 2016

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Pseudobacter ginsenosidimutans Siddiqi and Im 2016	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. Whether taxa can have "members" is debatable. 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 0 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 Pseudoflavitalea ginsenosidimutans (Siddiqi and Im 2016) Lawson et al. 2020 is illegitimate because it is a homotypic synonym of a type species with a genus name that has priority. Publication: Siddiqi MZ, Im WT. Pseudobacter ginsenosidimutans gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from ginseng cultivating soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3449-3455.

Parent taxon: Pseudoflavitalea Kim et al. 2016

Assigned by: Lawson PA, Patel NB, Mohammed A, Moore ERB, Lo AS, Sardi A, Davis JM, Doyle DA, Hui Y, Testerman T. Parapseudoflavitalea muciniphila gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Chitinophagaceae isolated from a human peritoneal tumour and reclassification of Pseudobacter ginsenosidimutans as Pseudoflavitalea ginsenosidimutans comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3639-3646.

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