Name: Arsenophonus Gherna et al. 1991

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Gr. n. arsên, a male; Gr. masc. n. phonos, murder, slaughter; N.L. masc. n. Arsenophonus, male-killer

Gender: masculine (stem: Arsenophon-)

Type species: Arsenophonus nasoniae Gherna et al. 1991

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Gherna RL, Werren JH, Weisburg W, Cote R, Woese CR, Mandelco L, Brenner DJ. Arsenophonus nasoniae gen. nov., sp. nov., the causative agent of the son-killer trait in the parasitic wasp Nasonia vitripennis. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1991; 41:563-565.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 41, part 4 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1992; 42:192.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the family Enterobacteriaceae Rahn 1937 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Arsenophpnus".
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.01839 (N = 6).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: LMG: 2; DSM: 2; CECT: 1; ATCC: 1.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 10

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Arsenophonus apicola Nadal-Jimenez et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Candidatus Arsenophonus arthropodicus" Dale et al. 2006	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Arsenophonus insecticola" Allen et al. 2007	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Arsenophonus lipoptenae" corrig. Nováková et al. 2016	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Arsenophonus lipopteni" Nováková et al. 2016	inaccurate spelling	misspelling (and no standing)
    "Candidatus Arsenophonus melophagi" Nováková et al. 2015	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    Arsenophonus nasoniae Gherna et al. 1991	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Candidatus Arsenophonus nilaparvatae" Fan et al. 2016	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Arsenophonus phytopathogenicus" Bressan et al. 2012	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Arsenophonus triatominarum" Hypša and Dale 1997	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Morganellaceae Adeolu et al. 2016

Assigned by: Adeolu M, Alnajar S, Naushad S, S Gupta R. Genome-based phylogeny and taxonomy of the 'Enterobacteriales': proposal for Enterobacterales ord. nov. divided into the families Enterobacteriaceae, Erwiniaceae fam. nov., Pectobacteriaceae fam. nov., Yersiniaceae fam. nov., Hafniaceae fam. nov., Morganellaceae fam. nov., and Budviciaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:5575-5599.

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