Name: Arsenicibacter rosenii Huang et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ro.se’ni.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. rosenii, of Rosen, to honour Prof. Barry P. Rosen, a respected microbiologist and biochemist, for his great contributions in the field of microbial arsenic transformation, especially in As methylation

Pronunciation, gender: ro-SE-ni-i, masculine

Type strain: CCTCC AB 2017086; KCTC 52624; SM-1

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16S rRNA gene: KT989310 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Huang K, Xu Y, Zhang J, Chen C, Gao F, Zhao FJ. Arsenicibacter rosenii gen. nov., sp. nov., an efficient arsenic methylating and volatilizing bacterium isolated from an arsenic-contaminated paddy soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:3186-3191.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:4881-4883.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Arsenicibacter Huang et al. 2017. Publication: Huang K, Xu Y, Zhang J, Chen C, Gao F, Zhao FJ. Arsenicibacter rosenii gen. nov., sp. nov., an efficient arsenic methylating and volatilizing bacterium isolated from an arsenic-contaminated paddy soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:3186-3191.
  • 😷 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 2 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by García-López et al. (2019). Publication: Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083.

Parent taxon: Arsenicibacter Huang et al. 2017

Assigned by: Huang K, Xu Y, Zhang J, Chen C, Gao F, Zhao FJ. Arsenicibacter rosenii gen. nov., sp. nov., an efficient arsenic methylating and volatilizing bacterium isolated from an arsenic-contaminated paddy soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:3186-3191.

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