Name: Alkaliflexus imshenetskii Zhilina et al. 2005

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: N.L. gen. masc. n. imshenetskii, of Imshenetskii, named after Aleksandr A. Imshenetskii (1905-1992), a microbiologist who devoted much of his research to the microbial degradation of cellulose, and gliding bacteria

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 15055; VKM B-2311; Z-7010

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AJ784993 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Zhilina TN, Appel R, Probian C, Brossa EL, Harder J, Widdel F, Zavarzin GA. Alkaliflexus imshenetskii gen. nov. sp. nov., a new alkaliphilic gliding carbohydrate-fermenting bacterium with propionate formation from a soda lake. Arch Microbiol 2004; 182:244-253.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 104. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1395-1397.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Hahnke et al. 2016 Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:2003. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 26. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2081-2086.
    Notes:
    • 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Alkaliflexus Zhilina et al. 2005. Publication: Zhilina TN, Appel R, Probian C, Brossa EL, Harder J, Widdel F, Zavarzin GA. Alkaliflexus imshenetskii gen. nov. sp. nov., a new alkaliphilic gliding carbohydrate-fermenting bacterium with propionate formation from a soda lake. Arch Microbiol 2004; 182:244-253.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 8 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Alkaliflexus Zhilina et al. 2005

Assigned by: Zhilina TN, Appel R, Probian C, Brossa EL, Harder J, Widdel F, Zavarzin GA. Alkaliflexus imshenetskii gen. nov. sp. nov., a new alkaliphilic gliding carbohydrate-fermenting bacterium with propionate formation from a soda lake. Arch Microbiol 2004; 182:244-253.

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