Name: Agrobacterium nepotum (Puławska et al. 2012) Mousavi et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Rhizobium nepotum Puławska et al. 2012

Etymology: ne.po.tum. L. gen. masc. pl. n. nepotum, of nephews, isolated in Poland and Hungary and reflecting the common Polish and Hungarian historical relationship, i.e. Polish and Hungarian are two nephews

Gender: neuter

Type strain: 39/7; CFBP 7436; DSM 29844; HAMBI 3456; LMG 26435

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: FR870231 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Mousavi SA, Willems A, Nesme X, de Lajudie P, Lindstrom K. Revised phylogeny of Rhizobiaceae: proposal of the delineation of Pararhizobium gen. nov., and 13 new species combinations. Syst Appl Microbiol 2015; 38:84-90.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 172. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4299-4305.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Rhizobium nepotum Puławska et al. 2012	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Emendations:
  • 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:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.18734 (N = 13).
  • 😷 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 - Containment level: Containment Level 1". — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "p".
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Agrobacterium Conn 1942 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Mousavi SA, Willems A, Nesme X, de Lajudie P, Lindstrom K. Revised phylogeny of Rhizobiaceae: proposal of the delineation of Pararhizobium gen. nov., and 13 new species combinations. Syst Appl Microbiol 2015; 38:84-90.

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Record number: 794717