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

Gender: 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

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.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 4 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 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 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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Record number: 773346