Name: Belnapia moabensis Reddy et al. 2006

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: mo.ab.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. moabensis, pertaining to Moab, UT, USA, where the type strain was isolated

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-1043; CP2C; DSM 16746

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AJ871428 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Reddy GS, Nagy M, Garcia-Pichel F. Belnapia moabensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an alphaproteobacterium from biological soil crusts in the Colorado Plateau, USA. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:51-58.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 56, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:679-680.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Hördt et al. 2020 Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Belnapia Reddy et al. 2006. Publication: Reddy GS, Nagy M, Garcia-Pichel F. Belnapia moabensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an alphaproteobacterium from biological soil crusts in the Colorado Plateau, USA. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:51-58.
  • 😷 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 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 The specific epithet moabensis is a "N.L. fem. adj.", not a "N.L. gen. n." as cited in the paper by Reddy et al. 2006. Publication: Euzeby JP. List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:590-592.

Parent taxon: Belnapia Reddy et al. 2006

Assigned by: Reddy GS, Nagy M, Garcia-Pichel F. Belnapia moabensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an alphaproteobacterium from biological soil crusts in the Colorado Plateau, USA. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:51-58.

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