Name: Albibacterium indicum (He et al. 2020) Wang et al. 2025

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Pedobacter indicus He et al. 2020

Etymology: in’di.cum. L. neut. adj. indicum, referring to the Indian Ocean, where the type strain was isolated

Pronunciation, gender: IN-di-kum, neuter

Type strain: CCTCC AB 2018198; KCTC 62798; SM1810

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16S rRNA gene: MH542420 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Wang YM, Liu R, Wang X, Sun K, Hong W, Wang Y, Liu J. Albibacterium profundi sp. nov., isolated from sediment of the Challenger Deep of Mariana Trench, and reclassification of Pedobacter indicus as Albibacterium indicum comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6754. 🇨🇳

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 75, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6792.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Pedobacter indicus He et al. 2020	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.12047 (N = 6).
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2025-04-29.

Parent taxon: Albibacterium García-López et al. 2020

Assigned by: Wang YM, Liu R, Wang X, Sun K, Hong W, Wang Y, Liu J. Albibacterium profundi sp. nov., isolated from sediment of the Challenger Deep of Mariana Trench, and reclassification of Pedobacter indicus as Albibacterium indicum comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6754. 🇨🇳

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