Name: Aggregicoccus edonensis Sood et al. 2015

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: e.do.nen’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. edonensis, belonging to Edo, former name of Tokyo, where the soil sample was collected from which the type strain was isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 27872; MCy1366; NCCB 100468

See detailed strain information at

16S rRNA gene: KF767690 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Sood S, Awal RP, Wink J, Mohr KI, Rohde M, Stadler M, Kampfer P, Glaeser SP, Schumann P, Garcia R, et al. Aggregicoccus edonensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an unusually aggregating myxobacterium isolated from a soil sample. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:745-753.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 65, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1701-1702.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Aggregicoccus Sood et al. 2015. Publication: Sood S, Awal RP, Wink J, Mohr KI, Rohde M, Stadler M, Kampfer P, Glaeser SP, Schumann P, Garcia R, et al. Aggregicoccus edonensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an unusually aggregating myxobacterium isolated from a soil sample. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:745-753.
  • 😷 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: Aggregicoccus Sood et al. 2015

Assigned by: Sood S, Awal RP, Wink J, Mohr KI, Rohde M, Stadler M, Kampfer P, Glaeser SP, Schumann P, Garcia R, et al. Aggregicoccus edonensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an unusually aggregating myxobacterium isolated from a soil sample. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:745-753.

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