Name: Bartonella heixiaziensis Li et al. 2016
Etymology: hei.xia.zi.en.sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. heixiaziensis, from Heixiazi Island [Bolshoi Ussuriysky Island], a sedimentary island at the confluence of the Ussuri and Amur Rivers in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province where the voles [Myodes rutilis and Microtus maximowiczii] from which the first strains were isolated were trapped
Type strain: CGMCC 1.15048; CR90HXZ; DSM 100695
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16S rRNA gene: KJ361623 Analyse FASTA
Effective publication: Li DM, Hou Y, Song XP, Fu YQ, Li GC, Li M, Eremeeva ME, Wu HX, Pang B, Yue YJ, et al. High prevalence and genetic heterogeneity of rodent-borne Bartonella species on Heixiazi Island, China. Appl Environ Microbiol 2015; 81:7981-7992.
IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 168. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1603-1606.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name
Parent taxon: Bartonella Strong et al. 1915 (Approved Lists 1980)
Assigned by: Li DM, Hou Y, Song XP, Fu YQ, Li GC, Li M, Eremeeva ME, Wu HX, Pang B, Yue YJ, et al. High prevalence and genetic heterogeneity of rodent-borne Bartonella species on Heixiazi Island, China. Appl Environ Microbiol 2015; 81:7981-7992.
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Record number: 793890