Name: Consotaella Díaz-Cárdenas et al. 2017

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Con.so.ta.el’la. N.L. fem. dim. n. Consotaella, pertaining to Salado de Consotá saline spring, the geographical location from which the organism was first isolated

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Consotaell-), kon-so-ta-EL-la

Type species: Consotaella salsifontis Díaz-Cárdenas et al. 2017

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Diaz-Cardenas C, Bernal LF, Caro-Quintero A, Lopez G, David Alzate J, Gonzalez LN, Restrepo S, Shapiro N, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, et al. Draft genome and description of Consotaella salsifontis gen. nov. sp. nov., a halophilic, free-living, nitrogen-fixing alphaproteobacterium isolated from an ancient terrestrial saline spring. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:3744-3751. 🇨🇴

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:3-6.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: KCTC: 1; CMPUJ: 1; JCM: 1; MCCC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Consotaella aegiceratis Luo et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Consotaella salsifontis Díaz-Cárdenas et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Aurantimonadaceae Hördt et al. 2020

Assigned by: Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468. 🇩🇪

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Record number: 519286