The genus Metakosakonia, as the closest phylogenetic neighbor of the genus Kosakonia within the family Enterobacteriaceae, when proposed in 2017, consisted of M. massiliensis JC163 and Metakosakonia spp. strains CAV1151 and GT-16. The strain CAV1151 was later classified into a novel species Phytobacter ursingii. Here, we show that the strain GT-16 shares a digital DNA-DNA hybridization (DDH) similarity of 91.0% with P. diazotrophicus DSM 17806 and thus also belongs to P. diazotrophicus. M. massiliensis and the strains within the genus Phytobacter formed a monophyletic cluster on a phylogenomic tree based on the core proteins of the family Enterobacteriaceae and on a phylogenetic tree based on the 16S rRNA genes. M. massiliensis and the genus Phytobacter share average amino acid identities of 86.80‒87.41% above the threshold (86%) for genus delimitation within the family Enterobacteriaceae. Moreover, they share conserved signature indels in the intracellular growth protein IgaA and the outer membrane assembly protein AsmA. Therefore, we propose to unite the genus Metakosakonia and the genus Phytobacter to a single genus. Because the genus Phytobacter was validly published earlier in 2017 than the genus Metakosakonia in 2017, the genus name Phytobacter has priority over Metakosakonia. We propose to unite the two genera under the name Phytobacter with the type species P. diazotrophicus and reclassify M. massiliensis as P. massiliensis comb. nov. In addition, the analyses of genome relatedness and phylogenomic relationship identified one potential novel species within the genus Phytobacter and three potential novel species within the genus Kosakonia.
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