Name: Nisaea Urios et al. 2008

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. n. Nisaea, nymph of the sea (one of the fifty daughters of Nereus and Doris), referring to the marine origin

Gender: feminine (stem: Nisae-)

Type species: Nisaea denitrificans Urios et al. 2008

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Urios L, Michotey V, Intertaglia L, Lesongeur F, Lebaron P. Nisaea denitrificans gen. nov., sp. nov. and Nisaea nitritireducens sp. nov., two novel members of the class Alphaproteobacteria from the Mediterranean Sea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:2336-2341.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 58, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:3-4.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Kwon et al. 2022 Kwon KK, Oh J-H, Yang S-H, Park M-J, Lee Y. Nisaea acidiphila sp. nov., isolated from a marine algal debris, emended description of the genus Nisaea Urios et al. 2008, and the emendation of Thalassobaculum salexigens as Thalassobaculum litoreum subsp. salexigens comb. nov. Korean J Microbiol 2022; 58:255-265. Oren A, Göker M. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 38. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5923.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Nisaeaceae 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 Nisaeaceae 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.
  • 🧕 Urios et al. (2008) assigned this genus to the family Rhodospirillaceae Pfennig and Trüper 1971 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Urios L, Michotey V, Intertaglia L, Lesongeur F, Lebaron P. Nisaea denitrificans gen. nov., sp. nov. and Nisaea nitritireducens sp. nov., two novel members of the class Alphaproteobacteria from the Mediterranean Sea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:2336-2341.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Pisaea".
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.07442 (N = 8).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: CIP: 2; DSM: 2; MCCC: 1; KCCM: 1; KCTC: 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: 4

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Nisaea acidiphila Kwon et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nisaea denitrificans Urios et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nisaea nitritireducens Urios et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Nisaea sediminum" Zhu et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Thalassobaculaceae 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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