Name: Zavarzinia Meyer et al. 1994

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Zav.arz.in’i.a. N.L. fem. n. Zavarzinia, named for Georgi Alexandrovich Zavarzin, the Russian microbiologist who with his co-workers made the first thorough investigation of mesophilic, Gram negative carboxidotrophic strains

Gender: feminine (stem: Zavarzini-)

Type species: Zavarzinia compransoris (ex Nozhevnikova and Zavarzin 1974) Meyer et al. 1994

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Meyer O, Stackebrandt E, Auling G. Reclassification of ubiquinone Q-10 containing carbooxidotrophic bacteria: transfer of "[Pseudomonas] carboxydovorans" OM5 to Oligotropha, gen. nov., as Oligotropha carboxidovorans, comb. nov., transfer of "[Alcaligenes] carboxydus" DSM 1086 to Carbophilus, gen. nov., as Carbophilus carboxidus, comb. nov., transfer of "[Pseudomonas] compransoris" DSM 1231 to Zavarzinia, gen. nov., as Zavarzinia compransoris, comb. nov., amended description of the new genera. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 1993; 16:390-395.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 48. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1994; 44:182-183.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Hu et al. 2022 Hu Z, Chen Y, Lai Q, Yu Z, Shao Z, Dong C. Zavarzinia marina sp. nov., a novel hydrocarbon-degrading bacterium isolated from deep chlorophyll maximum layer seawater of the West Pacific Ocean and emended description of the genus Zavarzinia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5527. Oren A, Göker M. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 72, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5736.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Zavarziniaceae Hördt et al. 2020. Publication: Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order Zavarziniales 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.
  • 🧕 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Acetobacteraceae (ex Henrici 1939) Gillis and De Ley 1980. Publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Class I. Alphaproteobacteria class. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 1.
  • 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the order Zavarziniales 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.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Zavaninia".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: LMG: 2; DSM: 1; MCCC: 1; ATCC: 1; KCTC: 1; CCUG: 1; JCM: 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
    Zavarzinia aquatilis Lee et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Zavarzinia compransoris (ex Nozhevnikova and Zavarzin 1974) Meyer et al. 1994	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Zavarzinia marina Hu et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Zavarziniaceae Hördt et al. 2020

Assigned by: Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468.

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