Name: Phaeospirillum Imhoff et al. 1998

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Phae.o.spi.ril’lum. Gr. masc. adj. phaios, brown; N.L. neut. dim. n. Spirillum, a bacterial genus; N.L. neut. dim. n. Phaeospirillum, brown Spirillum

Gender: neuter (stem: Phaeospirill-)

Type species: Phaeospirillum fulvum (van Niel 1944) Imhoff et al. 1998

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Imhoff JF, Petri R, Suling J. Reclassification of species of the spiral-shaped phototrophic purple non-sulfur bacteria of the alpha-Proteobacteria: description of the new genera Phaeospirillum gen. nov., Rhodovibrio gen. nov., Rhodothalassium gen. nov. and Roseospira gen. nov. as well as transfer of Rhodospirillum fulvum to Phaeospirillum fulvum comb. nov., of Rhodospirillum molischianum to Phaeospirillum molischianum comb. nov., of Rhodospirillum salinarum to Rhodovibrio salexigens. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:793-798.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 48, part 3 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:1085-1087.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Magnetospirillum Schleifer et al. 1992

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Paramagnetospirillum Koziaeva et al. 2023	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Magnetospirillum Schleifer et al. 1992	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Koziaeva et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Magnetospirillaceae Koziaeva et al. 2023. Publication: Koziaeva VV, Sorokin DY, Kolganova TV, Grouzdev DS. Magnetospirillum sulfuroxidans sp. nov., capable of sulfur-dependent lithoautotrophy and a taxonomic reevaluation of the order Rhodospirillales. Syst Appl Microbiol 2023; 46:126406.
  • 🚂 For the type species of this genus another name is in use, which is affiliated with the genus Magnetospirillum Schleifer et al. 1992. 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.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Phaeospirilhtm"; "Phtuaspirillum".
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Imhoff JF, Madigan MT. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of phototrophic bacteria. Minutes of the Meetings, 28 August 2000, Barcelona, Spain. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2002; 52:2335-2336.
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Imhoff JF, Wilmotte A. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of phototrophic bacteria: minutes of the meetings, 11 August 2009, Montreal, Canada. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3907-3909.
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Imhoff JF, Wilmotte A. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Phototrophic Bacteria: Minutes of the meetings, 4 August 2015, Tubingen, Germany. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5211.
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Raj et al. (2012). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
  • ❗ Phaeospirillum is the correct name instead if this genus is regarded as a separate genus (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another genus whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: ATCC: 3; KCTC: 3; NBRC: 3; DSM: 2; JCM: 1; LMG: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 5
Total number of child taxa: 5

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Phaeospirillum chandramohanii Anil Kumar et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	orphaned species
    Phaeospirillum fulvum (van Niel 1944) Imhoff et al. 1998	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Phaeospirillum molischianum (Giesberger 1947) Imhoff et al. 1998	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Phaeospirillum oryzae Lakshmi et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	orphaned species
    Phaeospirillum tilakii Raj et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	orphaned species

Parent taxon: Rhodospirillaceae Pfennig and Trüper 1971 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Lakshmi KV, Sasikala Ch, Takaichi S, Ramana ChV. Phaeospirillum oryzae sp. nov., a spheroplast-forming, phototrophic alphaproteobacterium from a paddy soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:1656-1661.

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