Name: Arenimonas malthae Young et al. 2007

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: mal.tha’e. L. fem. n. maltha, a kind of thick petroleum; L. gen. fem. n. malthae, of petroleum, because the type strain was isolated from an oil-contaminated site

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CC-JY-1; CCUG 53596; CIP 109310; DSM 21305

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: DQ239766 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Young CC, Kampfer P, Ho MJ, Busse HJ, Huber BE, Arun AB, Shen FT, Lai WA, Rekha PD. Arenimonas malthae sp. nov., a gammaproteobacterium isolated from an oil-contaminated site. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2790-2793.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:531-532.

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 9 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Arenimonas Kwon et al. 2007

Assigned by: Young CC, Kampfer P, Ho MJ, Busse HJ, Huber BE, Arun AB, Shen FT, Lai WA, Rekha PD. Arenimonas malthae sp. nov., a gammaproteobacterium isolated from an oil-contaminated site. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2790-2793.

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Record number: 787003