Name: Acidovorax bellezanensis Sánchez-Castro et al. 2024

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: bel.le.za.nen’sis. N.L. masc. adj. bellezanensis, pertaining to Bellezane, a French mining site in the region of Limousin, from which this bacterium was isolated

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: a-ki-DO-wo-rax bel-le-za-NEN-sis, masculine

Type strain: Be4; CECT 30865; DSM 116209

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: HG798880 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Sánchez-Castro I, Viver T, Martínez-Rodríguez P, Bustos-Caparros E, Ruiz-Fresneda MÁ, Mena-Sanabria MT, Jiménez-García I, Bosch-Estévez G, Descostes M, Merroun ML. Acidovorax bellezanensis sp. nov., a novel bacterium from uranium mill tailings repository sites with selenium bioremediation capabilities. Heliyon 2024; 10:e33171. 🇪🇸

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 220. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6501.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.01992 (N = 3).
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2025-12-16.
  • 🙆 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded risk group of the genus.

Parent taxon: Acidovorax Willems et al. 1990

Assigned by: Sánchez-Castro I, Viver T, Martínez-Rodríguez P, Bustos-Caparros E, Ruiz-Fresneda MÁ, Mena-Sanabria MT, Jiménez-García I, Bosch-Estévez G, Descostes M, Merroun ML. Acidovorax bellezanensis sp. nov., a novel bacterium from uranium mill tailings repository sites with selenium bioremediation capabilities. Heliyon 2024; 10:e33171. 🇪🇸

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Record number: 55698