Name: Acidobacterium ailaaui Myers and King 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ai.la.au’i. N.L. gen. masc. n. ailaaui, of the Hawaiian forest-eating fire god Ailaau

Gender: neuter

Type strain: DSM 27394; LMG 28340; PMMR2

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KX306477 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Myers MR, King GM. Isolation and characterization of Acidobacterium ailaaui sp. nov., a novel member of Acidobacteria subdivision 1, from a geothermally heated Hawaiian microbial mat. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:5328-5335.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:525-528.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Pseudacidobacterium ailaaui (Myers and King 2016) Zhang et al. 2022	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Acidobacterium Kishimoto et al. 1991

Assigned by: Myers MR, King GM. Isolation and characterization of Acidobacterium ailaaui sp. nov., a novel member of Acidobacteria subdivision 1, from a geothermally heated Hawaiian microbial mat. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:5328-5335.

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Record number: 794925