Genus Tropicimonas

Name: Tropicimonas Harwati et al. 2009

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Tro.pi.ci.mo’nas. L. masc. adj. tropicus, tropical, pertaining to the tropical zone of the Earth; L. fem. n. monas, unit, unicell; N.L. fem. n. Tropicimonas, a unicell belonging to the tropical zone

Gender: feminine (stem: Tropicimonad-)

Type species: Tropicimonas isoalkanivorans Harwati et al. 2009

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Harwati TU, Kasai Y, Kodama Y, Susilaningsih D, Watanabe K. Tropicimonas isoalkanivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a branched-alkane-degrading bacterium isolated from Semarang Port in Indonesia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:388-391.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:926-927.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Emendations:
- Oh et al. 2012 Oh KH, Choi WC, Jung YT, Kang SJ, Oh TK, Yoon JH. Tropicimonas aquimaris sp. nov., isolated from seawater, and emended description of the genus Tropicimonas Harwati et al. 2009. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:688-692. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 62, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1221-1222.
  Notes:
  - ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
- Liang et al. 2021 Liang KYH, Orata FD, Boucher YF, Case RJ. Roseobacters in a Sea of Poly- and Paraphyly: Whole Genome-Based Taxonomy of the Family Rhodobacteraceae and the Proposal for the Split of the "Roseobacter Clade" Into a Novel Family, Roseobacteraceae fam. nov. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:683109. 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:
  - ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

Notes:
- 🧕 Harwati et al. (2009) assigned this genus to the family Rhodobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Harwati TU, Kasai Y, Kodama Y, Susilaningsih D, Watanabe K. Tropicimonas isoalkanivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a branched-alkane-degrading bacterium isolated from Semarang Port in Indonesia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:388-391.
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Tropicimo".
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: KCTC: 3; DSM: 2; JCM: 2; CCUG: 1; NBRC: 1; MCCC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 5
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
Tropicimonas aquimaris Oh et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Tropicimonas arenosa Oh et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Tropicimonas isoalkanivorans Harwati et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Tropicimonas marinistellae (Zhang et al. 2017) Liang et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Tropicimonas sediminicola Shin et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Roseobacteraceae Liang et al. 2021

Assigned by: Liang KYH, Orata FD, Boucher YF, Case RJ. Roseobacters in a Sea of Poly- and Paraphyly: Whole Genome-Based Taxonomy of the Family Rhodobacteraceae and the Proposal for the Split of the "Roseobacter Clade" Into a Novel Family, Roseobacteraceae fam. nov. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:683109.

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