Name: Branchiibius hedensis Sugimoto et al. 2011

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: hed.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. hedensis, of or belonging to Heda, a town in Shizuoka prefecture, Japan, from where the codfish providing the source of the type strain was collected

Gender: masculine

Type strain: 29717; DSM 22951; Mer 29717; NBRC 106121

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB520822 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Sugimoto S, Kato T, Ito M, Sakata N, Tsuchida T, Matsumoto A, Takahashi Y. Branchiibius hedensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an actinobacterium isolated from a Japanese codling (Physiculus japonicus). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:1195-1200.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 61, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:1765-1766.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Branchiibius Sugimoto et al. 2011. Publication: Sugimoto S, Kato T, Ito M, Sakata N, Tsuchida T, Matsumoto A, Takahashi Y. Branchiibius hedensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an actinobacterium isolated from a Japanese codling (Physiculus japonicus). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:1195-1200.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 5 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project. 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: Branchiibius Sugimoto et al. 2011

Assigned by: Sugimoto S, Kato T, Ito M, Sakata N, Tsuchida T, Matsumoto A, Takahashi Y. Branchiibius hedensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an actinobacterium isolated from a Japanese codling (Physiculus japonicus). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:1195-1200.

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