Name: Blastomonas fulva Lee et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ful’va. L. fem. adj. fulva, tawny, yellowish brown, the colour of the colonies

Gender: feminine

Type strain: JCM 30467; KCTC 42354; T2

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KM670031 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Lee HG, Ko SR, Lee JW, Lee CS, Ahn CY, Oh HM, Jin L. Blastomonas fulva sp. nov., aerobic photosynthetic bacteria isolated from a Microcystis culture. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:3071-3076.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:4294-4297.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.19802 (N = 7).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Hördt et al. (2020). Publication: 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.

Parent taxon: Blastomonas Sly and Cahill 1997

Assigned by: Lee HG, Ko SR, Lee JW, Lee CS, Ahn CY, Oh HM, Jin L. Blastomonas fulva sp. nov., aerobic photosynthetic bacteria isolated from a Microcystis culture. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:3071-3076.

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Record number: 795721