Name: Adhaeribacter terrae Elderiny et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ter’rae. L. gen. fem. n. terrae, of the soil

Gender: masculine

Type strain: HY02; JCM 31652; KCTC 52512

See detailed strain information at

16S rRNA gene: LC177335 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Elderiny N, Lee JJ, Lee YH, Park SJ, Lee SY, Park S, Cho YJ, Ten LN, Jung HY. Adhaeribacter terrae sp. nov., a novel bacterium isolated from soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2922-2927.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:4294-4297.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😢 The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. Contrasting the term "chemotaxonomic" with "phenotypic" is not recommended. Whether taxa can have "members" is debatable. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details. Publication: Göker M. What can genome analysis offer for bacteria? In: Bridge P, Smith D, Stackebrandt E (eds), Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi, CAB International, Wallingford, 2021, p. 255-281.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 According to Ludwig et al. (2021), this "species affiliates away from the type species together with A. terreus and may be reclassified as a new genus". Publication: Ludwig W, Viver T, Westram R, Francisco Gago J, Bustos-Caparros E, Knittel K, Amann R, Rossello-Mora R. Release LTP_12_2020, featuring a new ARB alignment and improved 16S rRNA tree for prokaryotic type strains. Syst Appl Microbiol 2021; 44:126218.

Parent taxon: Adhaeribacter Rickard et al. 2005

Assigned by: Elderiny N, Lee JJ, Lee YH, Park SJ, Lee SY, Park S, Cho YJ, Ten LN, Jung HY. Adhaeribacter terrae sp. nov., a novel bacterium isolated from soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2922-2927.

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Record number: 795665