Name: Aurantimicrobium minutum Nakai et al. 2015

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: mi.nu’tum. L. neut. part. adj. minutum, very small, minute

Gender: neuter

Type strain: KNC; NBRC 105389; NCIMB 14875

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB540017 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Nakai R, Baba T, Niki H, Nishijima M, Naganuma T. Aurantimicrobium minutum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel ultramicrobacterium of the family Microbacteriaceae, isolated from river water. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:4072-4079.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 65, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:527-529.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Aurantimicrobium Nakai et al. 2015. Publication: Nakai R, Baba T, Niki H, Nishijima M, Naganuma T. Aurantimicrobium minutum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel ultramicrobacterium of the family Microbacteriaceae, isolated from river water. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:4072-4079.
  • 😷 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.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Nouioui et al. (2018). Publication: Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007.

Parent taxon: Aurantimicrobium Nakai et al. 2015

Assigned by: Nakai R, Baba T, Niki H, Nishijima M, Naganuma T. Aurantimicrobium minutum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel ultramicrobacterium of the family Microbacteriaceae, isolated from river water. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:4072-4079.

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