Name: Alkalibacter Garnova et al. 2005

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Al.ka.li.bac.ter. Arabic article al, the; Arabic masc. n. qaly, ashes of saltwort; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Alkalibacter, alkaliphilic rod-shaped cells

Gender: masculine (stem: Alkalibacter-)

Type species: Alkalibacter saccharofermentans Garnova et al. 2005

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Garnova ES, Zhilina TN, Tourova TP, Kostrikina NA, Zavarzin GA. Anaerobic, alkaliphilic, saccharolytic bacterium Alkalibacter saccharofermentans gen. nov., sp. nov. from a soda lake in the Transbaikal region of Russia. Extremophiles 2004; 8:309-316.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 103. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:983-985.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Namirimu et al. 2022 Namirimu T, Yu J, Yang JA, Yang SH, Kim YJ, Kwon KK. Alkalibacter rhizosphaerae sp. nov., a CO-utilizing bacterium isolated from tidal flat sediment, and emended description of the genus Alkalibacter. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5495. Oren A, Göker M. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 72, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5644.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Alkalibacteraceae Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Alkalibacteraceae Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.00111 (N = 10).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: VKM: 2; KCTC: 2; JCM: 1; DSM: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Alkalibacter mobilis Khomyakova et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alkalibacter rhizosphaerae Namirimu et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alkalibacter saccharofermentans Garnova et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Eubacteriaceae Ludwig et al. 2010

Assigned by: Ludwig W, Schleifer K-H, Whitman WB. Family II. Eubacteriaceae fam. nov. In: De Vos P, Garrity GM, Jones D, Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Rainey FA, K.-H. S, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 3 (The Firmicutes), Springer, New York, 2009, p. 865.

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