Name: Allorhizobium taibaishanense (Yao et al. 2012) Hördt et al. 2020

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Rhizobium taibaishanense Yao et al. 2012

Etymology: tai.bai.shan.en’se. N.L. neut. adj. taibaishanense, of or belonging to the Taibaishan Mountains in the Shaanxi province of China, where the bacterium was isolated

Gender: neuter

Type strain: 14971; ACCC 14971; CCNWSX 483; DSM 100021; HAMBI 3214

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: HM776997 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: 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.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 194. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4043-4049.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Rhizobium taibaishanense Yao et al. 2012	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Allorhizobium taibaishanense" (Yao et al. 2012) Mousavi et al. 2015	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 😷 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: Allorhizobium de Lajudie et al. 1998

Assigned by: 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.

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Record number: 11062