Name: Roseateles saccharophilus (Doudoroff 1940) Liu et al. 2023

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Pseudomonas saccharophila Doudoroff 1940 (Approved Lists 1980)

Etymology: sac.cha.ro’phi.lus. N.L. masc. adj. suff. -philus, loving; N.L. masc. adj. saccharophilus, sugar-loving

Pronunciation, gender: … sak-k^ha-RO-p^hi-lus, masculine

Type strain: ATCC 15946; CCUG 32988; CFBP 2433; CIP 59.18; DSM 654; HAMBI 373; IAM 14368; JCM 15912; JCM 21181; LMG 2256; NBRC 103037; NCCB 46053; VKM B-902

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB021407 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Liu Y, Du J, Pei T, Du H, Feng GD, Zhu H. Genome-based taxonomic classification of the closest-to-Comamonadaceae group supports a new family Sphaerotilaceae fam. nov. and taxonomic revisions. Syst Appl Microbiol 2022; 45:126352. 🇨🇳

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 209. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5709.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Pelomonas saccharophila (Doudoroff 1940) Xie and Yokota 2005	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Pseudomonas saccharophila Doudoroff 1940 (Approved Lists 1980)	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.01300 (N = 6).
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
  • 🙆 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded risk group of other species in the genus.
  • 🧍 The distinct name Roseateles asaccharophilus from the same publication has a similar spelling. Publication: Angell RC, Freund GE, Willett P. Automatic spelling correction using a trigram similarity measure. Information Processing and Management 1983; 19:255-261.

Parent taxon: Roseateles Suyama et al. 1999

Assigned by: Liu Y, Du J, Pei T, Du H, Feng GD, Zhu H. Genome-based taxonomic classification of the closest-to-Comamonadaceae group supports a new family Sphaerotilaceae fam. nov. and taxonomic revisions. Syst Appl Microbiol 2022; 45:126352. 🇨🇳

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Record number: 36298