Name: Isoptericola Stackebrandt et al. 2004

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: I.sop.te.ri’co.la. N.L. neut. pl. n. Isoptera, order of termites; L. masc./fem. n. suff. -cola, inhabitant; from L. masc./fem. n. incola, dweller; N.L. masc. n. Isoptericola, inhabitant of termites

Gender, pronunciation: masculine (stem: Isoptericol-), i-sop-te-RI-ko-la

Type species: Isoptericola variabilis (Bakalidou et al. 2002) Stackebrandt et al. 2004

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Stackebrandt E, Schumann P, Cui XL. Reclassification of Cellulosimicrobium variabile Bakalidou et al. 2002 as Isoptericola variabilis gen. nov., comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:685-688. 🇩🇪

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 54, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1427-1428.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Cellulomonas Bergey et al. 1923 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Priya NG, Ojha A, Kajla MK, Raj A, Rajagopal R. Host plant induced variation in gut bacteria of Helicoverpa armigera. PLoS One 2012; 7:e30768. 🇮🇳
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Cellulosimicrobium Schumann et al. 2001. Publication: Bakalidou A, Kampfer P, Berchtold M, Kuhnigk T, Wenzel M, Konig H. Cellulosimicrobium variabile sp. nov., a cellulolytic bacterium from the hindgut of the termite Mastotermes darwiniensis. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1185-1192. 🇩🇪
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Ispopericola"; "Isptericola".
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.05140 (N = 5).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 11; KCTC: 10; JCM: 8; NBRC: 3; CCTCC: 3; MCCC: 2; ATCC: 2; MTCC: 2; TRM: 1; NEAU: 1.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1". — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 13
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 13
Total number of child taxa: 18

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Isoptericola aurantiacus" Liu et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name
    Isoptericola chiayiensis Tseng et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Isoptericola croceus Ou Yang et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Isoptericola cucumis Kämpfer et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Isoptericola dokdonensis Yoon et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Isoptericola halalbus Ming et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Isoptericola haloaureus" Prathaban et al. 2024	not validly published	preferred name
    Isoptericola halotolerans Zhang et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Isoptericola hypogeus Groth et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Isoptericola jiangsuensis Wu et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Isoptericola luteus Bing et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Isoptericola nanjingensis Huang et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Isoptericola peretonis Vidal-Verdú et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Isoptericola rhizophila" Kaur et al. 2014	not validly published	preferred name
    "Isoptericola rhizosphaerae" Liu et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name
    Isoptericola salitolerans Guan et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Isoptericola sediminis" Kumar et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name
    Isoptericola variabilis (Bakalidou et al. 2002) Stackebrandt et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Promicromonosporaceae Rainey et al. 1997

Assigned by: Zhi XY, Li WJ, Stackebrandt E. An update of the structure and 16S rRNA gene sequence-based definition of higher ranks of the class Actinobacteria, with the proposal of two new suborders and four new families and emended descriptions of the existing higher taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:589-608. 🇨🇳

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