Name: Albibacterium bauzanense (Zhang et al. 2010) García-López et al. 2020

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Pedobacter bauzanensis Zhang et al. 2010

Etymology: bau.za.nen’se. M.L. neut. adj. bauzanense, referring to Bauzanum, the medieval Latin name for Bozen/Bolzano, a city in South Tyrol, Italy, where the species was first found

Pronunciation, gender: ba͡u-za-NEN-se, neuter

Type strain: BZ42; CGMCC 1.10187; CIP 110134; DSM 22554

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: GQ161990 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 193. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:2960-2966.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Pedobacter bauzanensis Zhang et al. 2010	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Albibacterium García-López et al. 2020. Publication: Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2025-06-04.

Parent taxon: Albibacterium García-López et al. 2020

Assigned by: Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083.

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Record number: 7850