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| Paracoccaceae | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Pseudomonadati |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Alphaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Rhodobacterales |
| Family: | Paracoccaceae Liang et al. 2022[1] |
| Type genus | |
| Paracoccus Davis 1969 (Approved Lists 1980) | |
| Genera[1] | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Paracoccaceae is a family of bacteria in the order Rhodobacterales, class Alphaproteobacteria, and phylum Pseudomonadota. Its type genus is Paracoccus.[1] Members occur in marine, freshwater, and terrestrial environments; many have been isolated from low-salinity habitats and do not require sodium chloride for growth.[2]
Taxonomy
[edit]The family was historically classified under the name Rhodobacteraceae. Although that name was validly published, it is illegitimate under Rule 51b(1) of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes because its original circumscription included Hyphomonas, the type genus of the previously named family Hyphomonadaceae.[3]
Genome-based analysis separated the predominantly marine "Roseobacter clade" from the broadly circumscribed Rhodobacteraceae and placed it in the family Roseobacteraceae.[2] Paracoccaceae was subsequently validly published for the family containing Paracoccus, Rhodobacter, and related genera. LPSN treats Paracoccaceae as the correct name and Rhodobacteraceae as a heterotypic synonym.[4][1][3]
Genera
[edit]The List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature recognizes the following 55 genera with validly published and correct names. Synonyms, provisional names, and misspellings are excluded.[1]
- Abyssibius
- Acidimangrovimonas
- Albidovulum
- Albimonas
- Albirhodobacter
- Algicella
- Alkalilacustris
- Allgaiera
- Amaricoccus
- Arenibacillus
- Cereibacter
- Coraliihabitans
- Cypionkella
- Falsigemmobacter
- Falsirhodobacter
- Fertoeibacter
- Frigidibacter
- Fuscibacter
- Gemmobacter
- Haematobacter
- Hahyoungchilella
- Halodurantibacterium
- Halovulum
- Limibaculum
- Methylarcula
- Neotabrizicola
- Neptunicoccus
- Oceanicella
- Ostreiculturibacter
- Paludibacillus
- Paracoccus
- Paralimibaculum
- Pararhodobacter
- Paroceanicella
- Phaeovulum
- Pikeienuella
- Pontitalea
- Pontivivens
- Pseudogemmobacter
- Pseudorhodobacter
- Pseudothioclava
- Rhabdonatronobacter
- Rhodobacter
- Rhodobaculum
- Roseicitreum
- Roseinatronobacter
- Rubribacterium
- Rubrimonas
- Ruixingdingia
- Solirhodobacter
- Szabonella
- Tabrizicola
- Thermohalobaculum
- Thioclava
- Xinfangfangia
Phylogeny
[edit]The genus-level tree below was pruned from the 120-marker-protein reference tree of GTDB release R11-RS232.[5][6] GTDB retains the broader family name Rhodobacteraceae, and its generic assignments differ from those of LPSN.[7] Consequently, only genera with validly published and correct LPSN names that occur under the same genus name in GTDB are shown.[1]
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The following accepted genera are not represented under the same genus name in the GTDB R11-RS232 species-label tree and have been omitted: Allgaiera, Arenibacillus, Coraliihabitans, Falsigemmobacter, Hahyoungchilella, Limibaculum, Methylarcula, Neptunicoccus, Paludibacillus, Paralimibaculum, Rubribacterium, and Xinfangfangia.
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Family: Paracoccaceae". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature. Leibniz Institute DSMZ. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
- 1 2 Liang, Kevin Y. H.; Orata, Fabini D.; Boucher, Yann F.; Case, Rebecca J. (2021). "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". Frontiers in Microbiology. 12 683109. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2021.683109. PMC 8267831. PMID 34248901.
- 1 2 "Family: Rhodobacteraceae". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature. Leibniz Institute DSMZ. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
- ↑ Göker, Markus (2022). "Filling the gaps: missing taxon names at the ranks of class, order and family". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 72 (12) 005638. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.005638. PMID 36748602.
- 1 2 "GTDB R11-RS232 statistics". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
- 1 2 "bac120_r232.sp_labels". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
- ↑ "bac120_taxonomy_r232.tsv". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
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