Name: Lentimicrobium Sun et al. 2016

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Len.ti.mi.cro’bi.um. L. masc. adj. lentus, slow; N.L. neut. n. microbium, a microbe; from Gr. masc. adj. mikros, small (may keep -o); from Gr. masc. n. bios, life; N.L. neut. n. Lentimicrobium, slow growing microbe

Gender: neuter (stem: Lentimicrobi-)

Type species: Lentimicrobium saccharophilum Sun et al. 2016

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Sun L, Toyonaga M, Ohashi A, Tourlousse DM, Matsuura N, Meng XY, Tamaki H, Hanada S, Cruz R, Yamaguchi T, et al. Lentimicrobium saccharophilum gen. nov., sp. nov., a strictly anaerobic bacterium representing a new family in the phylum Bacteroidetes, and proposal of Lentimicrobiaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2635-2642.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3769-3770.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • 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:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Lentimicrobiaceae Sun et al. 2016. Publication: Sun L, Toyonaga M, Ohashi A, Tourlousse DM, Matsuura N, Meng XY, Tamaki H, Hanada S, Cruz R, Yamaguchi T, et al. Lentimicrobium saccharophilum gen. nov., sp. nov., a strictly anaerobic bacterium representing a new family in the phylum Bacteroidetes, and proposal of Lentimicrobiaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2635-2642.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Lentimicrobia".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 1; DSM: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Lentimicrobium saccharophilum Sun et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Lentimicrobiaceae Sun et al. 2016

Assigned by: Sun L, Toyonaga M, Ohashi A, Tourlousse DM, Matsuura N, Meng XY, Tamaki H, Hanada S, Cruz R, Yamaguchi T, et al. Lentimicrobium saccharophilum gen. nov., sp. nov., a strictly anaerobic bacterium representing a new family in the phylum Bacteroidetes, and proposal of Lentimicrobiaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2635-2642.

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