Name: Proteiniphilum Chen and Dong 2005

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Pro.tei’ni.phi.lum. N.L. neut. n. proteinum, protein; Gr. masc. adj. philos, loving; N.L. neut. n. Proteiniphilum, protein loving

Gender: neuter (stem: Proteiniphil-)

Type species: Proteiniphilum acetatigenes Chen and Dong 2005

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Chen S, Dong X. Proteiniphilum acetatigenes gen. nov., sp. nov., from a UASB reactor treating brewery wastewater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:2257-2261.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 55, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:319-321.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Hahnke et al. 2016 Hahnke S, Langer T, Koeck DE, Klocke M. Description of Proteiniphilum saccharofermentans sp. nov., Petrimonas mucosa sp. nov. and Fermentimonas caenicola gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from mesophilic laboratory-scale biogas reactors, and emended description of the genus Proteiniphilum. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1466-1475. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2126-2128.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
  • García-López et al. 2019 Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Krieg et al. (2010) assigned this genus to the family Porphyromonadaceae Krieg 2012. Publication: Krieg NR. Family IV. Porphyromonadaceae fam. nov. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 4, Springer, New York, 2010, p. 61.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Proteiniphi".
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.02514 (N = 9).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 3; JCM: 2; CGMCC: 1; CECT: 1; LMG: 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
    Proteiniphilum acetatigenes Chen and Dong 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Proteiniphilum propionicum Liu et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Proteiniphilum saccharofermentans Hahnke et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Dysgonomonadaceae García-López et al. 2020

Assigned by: Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083.

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