Name: Aminobacterium thunnarium Hamdi et al. 2015

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: thun.na’ri.um. L. neut. adj. thunnarium, of or belonging to a tunny (cooking tuna wastewater), where the isolate was first recovered

Gender: neuter

Type strain: DSM 27500; JCM 19320; OTA 102

See detailed strain information at

16S rRNA gene: KJ159211 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Hamdi O, Ben Hania W, Postec A, Bouallagui H, Hamdi M, Bonin P, Ollivier B, Fardeau ML. Aminobacterium thunnarium sp. nov., a mesophilic, amino acid-degrading bacterium isolated from an anaerobic sludge digester, pertaining to the phylum Synergistetes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:609-614.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 65, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1397-1399.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Aminobacterium Baena et al. 1999

Assigned by: Hamdi O, Ben Hania W, Postec A, Bouallagui H, Hamdi M, Bonin P, Ollivier B, Fardeau ML. Aminobacterium thunnarium sp. nov., a mesophilic, amino acid-degrading bacterium isolated from an anaerobic sludge digester, pertaining to the phylum Synergistetes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:609-614.

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Record number: 792515