Name: Acidomonas methanolica (Uhlig et al. 1986) Urakami et al. 1989

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Acetobacter methanolicus Uhlig et al. 1986

Etymology: me.tha.no’li.ca. N.L. neut. n. methanol, methanol; L. adj. suff. -icus -a -um, suffix used in adjectives with the sense of belonging to; N.L. fem. adj. methanolica, relating to methanol

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ATCC 43581; CCUG 37300; CIP 103167; DSM 5432; IMET 10945; JCM 6891; LMG 1668; MB58; NCCB 89007; NRIC 498; TK 0705; VKM B-2104

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: X77468 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Urakami T, Tamaoka J, Suzuki KI, Komagata K. Acidomonas gen. nov., incorporating Acetobacter methanolicus as Acidomonas methanolica comb. nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1989; 39:50-55.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Acetobacter methanolicus Uhlig et al. 1986	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Emendations:
  • Yamashita et al. 2004 Yamashita S, Uchimura T, Komagata K. Emendation of the genus Acidomonas Urakami, Tamaoka, Suzuki and Komagata 1989. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:865-870. 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.
  • Hördt et al. 2020 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. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Acidomonas Urakami et al. 1989. Publication: Urakami T, Tamaoka J, Suzuki KI, Komagata K. Acidomonas gen. nov., incorporating Acetobacter methanolicus as Acidomonas methanolica comb. nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1989; 39:50-55.
  • 😷 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". — The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 12 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 According to Bartlett et al. (2022), this species is a putative human pathogen. Publication: Bartlett A, Padfield D, Lear L, Bendall R, Vos M. A comprehensive list of bacterial pathogens infecting humans. Microbiology 2022; 168:0.

Parent taxon: Acidomonas Urakami et al. 1989

Assigned by: Urakami T, Tamaoka J, Suzuki KI, Komagata K. Acidomonas gen. nov., incorporating Acetobacter methanolicus as Acidomonas methanolica comb. nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1989; 39:50-55.

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