Name: Arsenicicoccus bolidensis Collins et al. 2004

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: bol.id.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. bolidensis, pertaining to the Boliden region in Vasterbotten district of northern Sweden, where the type strain was isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CCUG 47306; DSM 15745; JCM 13385

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AJ558133 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Collins MD, Routh J, Saraswathy A, Lawson PA, Schumann P, Welinder-Olsson C, Falsen E. Arsenicicoccus bolidensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel actinomycete isolated from contaminated lake sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:605-608.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 54, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1007-1009.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Arsenicicoccus Collins et al. 2004. Publication: Collins MD, Routh J, Saraswathy A, Lawson PA, Schumann P, Welinder-Olsson C, Falsen E. Arsenicicoccus bolidensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel actinomycete isolated from contaminated lake sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:605-608.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 7 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project. Publication: Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007.

Parent taxon: Arsenicicoccus Collins et al. 2004

Assigned by: Collins MD, Routh J, Saraswathy A, Lawson PA, Schumann P, Welinder-Olsson C, Falsen E. Arsenicicoccus bolidensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel actinomycete isolated from contaminated lake sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:605-608.

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Record number: 773381