Name: Aquimonas voraii Saha et al. 2005

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: vo.ra’i.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. voraii, of Vora, named after V.V. Vora, a distinguished biotechnologist and founder director of the Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India

Pronunciation, gender: wo-RA-i-i, feminine

Type strain: DSM 16957; GPTSA 20; JCM 12896; MTCC 6713

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AY544768 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Saha P, Krishnamurthi S, Mayilraj S, Prasad GS, Bora TC, Chakrabarti T. Aquimonas voraii gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel gammaproteobacterium isolated from a warm spring of Assam, India. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1491-1495.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 55, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:2239-2241.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Aquimonas Saha et al. 2005. Publication: Saha P, Krishnamurthi S, Mayilraj S, Prasad GS, Bora TC, Chakrabarti T. Aquimonas voraii gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel gammaproteobacterium isolated from a warm spring of Assam, India. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1491-1495.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 4 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
  • 🙆 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded pathogenicity of the species itself.
  • 🧍 According to Bartlett et al. (2022), this species is a putative human pathogen. Publication: Bartlett A, Padfield D, Lear L, Bendall R, Vos M. A comprehensive list of bacterial pathogens infecting humans. Microbiology (Reading) 2022; 168:0.

Parent taxon: Aquimonas Saha et al. 2005

Assigned by: Saha P, Krishnamurthi S, Mayilraj S, Prasad GS, Bora TC, Chakrabarti T. Aquimonas voraii gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel gammaproteobacterium isolated from a warm spring of Assam, India. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1491-1495.

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