Aurantimonadaceae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order: Hyphomicrobiales
Family: Aurantimonadaceae
Hördt et al. 2020[1]
Genera[2]
Synonyms
  • "Aurantimonadaceae" Denner et al. 2003

The Aurantimonadaceae are a small family of marine bacteria.

Notable Species

Aurantimonas coralicida causes a white plague in corals.[3]

Fulvimarina pelagi was isolated from seawater, and takes the form of nonmotile rods.[4] Fulvimarina pelagi is an obligate aerobe, and obtains its nourishment chemoheterotrophically. It tests positive for oxidase and catalase, and contains carotenoid pigments, possibly to protect against solar radiation.

Etymology

The name Aurantimonas derives from: Neo-Latin aurantus, orange-coloured; Greek monas (μονάς), a unit; to mean an orange-coloured unicellular organism.[5]

Members of the genus Aurantimonas can be referred to as aurantimonads (viz. trivialisation of names).

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN).[2] The phylogeny is based on whole-genome analysis.[1]

Aurantimonadaceae

Aureimonas

Mangrovicella

Consotaella

Fulvimarina

Jiella

Aurantimonas

outgroup

Devosiaceae

References

  1. ^ a b Hördt A, García López M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow A, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Göker M (2020). "Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria". Front. Microbiol. 11: 468. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2020.00468. PMC 7179689. PMID 32373076.
  2. ^ a b Euzéby JP, Parte AC. "Aurantimonadaceae". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved May 15, 2021.
  3. ^ Denner; et al. (2003). "Aurantimonas coralicida gen. nov., sp. nov., the causative agent of white plague type II on Caribbean scleractinian corals". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 53 (4): 1115–1122. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02359-0. PMID 12892136.
  4. ^ Cho; Giovannoni (2003). "Fulvimarina pelagi gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine bacterium that forms a deep evolutionary lineage of descent in the order 'Rhizobiales'". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 53 (6): 1853–1859. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02644-0. PMID 14657114.
  5. ^ Aurantimonas in LPSN; Parte, Aidan C.; Sardà Carbasse, Joaquim; Meier-Kolthoff, Jan P.; Reimer, Lorenz C.; Göker, Markus (1 November 2020). "List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 70 (11): 5607–5612. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.004332.


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