Genus Helicobacter

Name: Helicobacter Goodwin et al. 1989

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: He.li.co.bac.ter. Gr. fem. n. helix, twisted, curved, spiral; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod, a staff; N.L. masc. n. Helicobacter, a spiral rod

Gender: masculine

Type species: Helicobacter pylori (Marshall et al. 1985) Goodwin et al. 1989

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Goodwin CS, Armstrong JA, Chilvers T, Peters M, Collins MD, Sly L, McConnell W, Harper WES. Transfer of Campylobacter pylori and Campylobacter mustelae to Helicobacter gen. nov. as Helicobacter pylori comb. nov. and Helicobacter mustelae comb. nov., respectively. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1989; 39:397-405.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
"Pseudohelicobacter" Waite et al. 2019	heterotypic synonym, not validly published

Emendations:
- Vandamme et al. 1991 Vandamme P, Falsen E, Rossau R, Hoste B, Segers P, Tytgat R, De Ley J. Revision of Campylobacter, Helicobacter, and Wolinella taxonomy: emendation of generic descriptions and proposal of Arcobacter gen. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:88-103. Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 41, part 1 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:457-458.
  Notes:
  - Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 2 new species in the genus.

Notes:
- Nomenclatural type of the family Helicobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family II. Helicobacteraceae fam. 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. 1168.
- The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Campylobacter Sebald and Véron 1963 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Marshall BJ, Royce H, Annear DI, Goodwin CS, Pearman JW, Warren JR, Armstrong JA. Original isolation of Campylobacter pyloridis from human gastric mucosa. Microbios. Lett. 1984; 25:83-88.
- This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Halicobacter"; "Hdicobacter"; "Heficobucter"; "Hekobacter"; "Helfcobacter"; "Helicobucter"; "Helicohacter"; "Helikobacterium"; "Heliobacte"; "Heliobacter"; "Heliocobacter"; "Hellcobacter"; "Helocobacter"; "Helycobacter".
- This taxon name is occasionally used in plural form as: "Helicobacteria".
- Minimal standards for the description of new taxa in this group were published in 2000. Publication: Dewhirst FE, Fox JG, On SL. Recommended minimal standards for describing new species of the genus Helicobacter. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:2231-2237.
- This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: On SL. International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Campylobacter and related bacteria. Minutes of the meeting, 2 September 1998, Budapest, Hungary. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:1399-1400.
- This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: On SLW. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Campylobacter and related bacteria. Minutes of the meetings, 2 and 4 September 2001, Freiburg, Germany. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2002; 52:2339-2341.
- This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: On SL. International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Campylobacter and related bacteria. Minutes of the meetings, 13 and 16 September 1999, Baltimore, USA. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:1401-1403.
- This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: On SLW. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Campylobacter and related bacteria. Minutes of the meeting, 31 July 2002, Paris, France. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2004; 54:291-292.
- This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: On SLW. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Campylobacter and related bacteria. Minutes of the meetings, 7 and 10 September 2003, Aarhus, Denmark. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2009; 59:195-196.
- This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: On SLW, Miller WG. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Campylobacter and Related Bacteria. Minutes of the meetings, August 27 and August 31 2011, Vancouver, Canada. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:5312-5314.
- This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: On SLW, Miller WG. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Campylobacter and Related Bacteria. Minutes of the meetings, September 15th and 18th 2013, Aberdeen, Scotland. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:5315-5316.
- This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Miller WG, On SLW. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Campylobacter and related bacteria: Minutes of the closed Meeting, 2 September 2009, Niigata, Japan. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:2559-2560.
- Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Shen et al. (2020), Joosten et al. (2016), Baele et al. (2008). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 48
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 49
Total number of child taxa: 68

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Helicobacter acinonix Eaton et al. 1993	orthographic variant	misspelling
Helicobacter acinonychis corrig. Eaton et al. 1993	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Helicobacter acinonyx Eaton et al. 1993	orthographic variant	misspelling
Helicobacter ailurogastricus Joosten et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Helicobacter anseris Fox et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Helicobacter apodemus" Jeon et al. 2015	not validly published
Helicobacter apri Zanoni et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Helicobacter aurati Patterson et al. 2002	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Helicobacter baculiformis Baele et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Helicobacter bilis Fox et al. 1997	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Helicobacter bizzozeronii Hänninen et al. 1996	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Candidatus Helicobacter bovis" De Groote et al. 1999	not validly published
Helicobacter brantae Fox et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Helicobacter burdigaliensis" Berthenet et al. 2019	not validly published
"Helicobacter callitrichis" Won et al. 2007	not validly published
Helicobacter canadensis Fox et al. 2002	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Helicobacter canicola Kawamura et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Helicobacter canis Stanley et al. 1994	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Helicobacter cetorum Harper et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Helicobacter cholecystus Franklin et al. 1997	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Helicobacter cinaedi (Totten et al. 1988) Vandamme et al. 1991	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Helicobacter colifelis" Foley et al. 1998	not validly published
Helicobacter cynogastricus Van den Bulck et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Helicobacter delphinicola Segawa et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Helicobacter didelphidarum Shen et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Helicobacter enhydrae Shen et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Helicobacter equorum Moyaert et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Helicobacter felis Paster et al. 1991	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Helicobacter fennelliae (Totten et al. 1988) Vandamme et al. 1991	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Helicobacter ganmani Robertson et al. 2001	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Helicobacter heilmanii" Debongnie et al. 1995	not validly published
Helicobacter heilmannii Smet et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Candidatus Helicobacter heilmannii" O'Rourke et al. 2004	not validly published
Helicobacter hepaticus Fox et al. 1994	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Helicobacter himalayensis Hu et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Candidatus Helicobacter homininae" Flahou et al. 2014	not validly published
Helicobacter jaachi Shen et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Helicobacter japonicum Shen et al. 2017	orthographic variant	misspelling
Helicobacter japonicus corrig. Shen et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Helicobacter labacensis Gruntar et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Helicobacter labetoulli" Berthenet et al. 2019	not validly published
Helicobacter macacae Fox et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Helicobacter magdeburgensis" Traverso et al. 2010	not validly published
Helicobacter marmotae Fox et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Helicobacter mastomyrinus Shen et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Helicobacter mehlei Gruntar et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Helicobacter mesocricetorum Simmons et al. 2000	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Helicobacter monodelphidis Shen et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Helicobacter muricola" Won et al. 2002	not validly published
Helicobacter muridarum Lee et al. 1992	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Helicobacter mustelae (Fox et al. 1988) Goodwin et al. 1989	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Helicobacter nemestrinae Bronsdon et al. 1991	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
Helicobacter pametensis Dewhirst et al. 1994	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Helicobacter pullorum Stanley et al. 1995	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Helicobacter pylori (Marshall et al. 1985) Goodwin et al. 1989	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Helicobacter rodentium Shen et al. 1997	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Helicobacter saguini Shen et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Helicobacter salomonis Jalava et al. 1997	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Candidatus Helicobacter suis" De Groote et al. 1999	not validly published
Helicobacter suis Baele et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Helicobacter suncus" Goto et al. 1998	not validly published
Helicobacter trogontum Mendes et al. 1996	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Helicobacter typhlonicus" Franklin et al. 1999	not validly published
Helicobacter typhlonius Franklin et al. 2002	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Helicobacter valdiviensis Collado et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Helicobacter vulpis Gruntar et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Helicobacter westmeadii" Trivett-Moore et al. 1997	not validly published
"Helicobacter winghamensis" Melito et al. 2001	not validly published

Parent taxon: Helicobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006

Assigned by: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family II. Helicobacteraceae fam. 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. 1168.

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