Name: Aquamicrobium terrae Wu et al. 2014

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ter’rae. L. gen. fem. n. terrae, of the earth, referring to the organism being isolated from soil

Gender: neuter

Type strain: CICC 10733; DSM 27865; hun6

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KC840671 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Wu ZG, Wang F, Gu CG, Zhang YP, Yang ZZ, Wu XW, Jiang X. Aquamicrobium terrae sp. nov., isolated from the polluted soil near a chemical factory. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2014; 105:1131-1137.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 160. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3603-3606.

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 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Aquamicrobium Bambauer et al. 1998

Assigned by: Wu ZG, Wang F, Gu CG, Zhang YP, Yang ZZ, Wu XW, Jiang X. Aquamicrobium terrae sp. nov., isolated from the polluted soil near a chemical factory. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2014; 105:1131-1137.

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Record number: 792255