Name: Brassicibacter mesophilus Fang et al. 2012

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: me.so.phi’lus. Gr. masc. adj. mesos, middle; N.L. adj. philus -a -um, loving; from Gr. adj. philos -ê -on, friend to, loving; N.L. masc. adj. mesophilus, middle (temperature)-loving, mesophilic

Gender: masculine

Type strain: BM; DSM 24659; JCM 16868

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: GU645013 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Fang MX, Zhang WW, Zhang YZ, Tan HQ, Zhang XQ, Wu M, Zhu XF. Brassicibacter mesophilus gen. nov., sp. nov., a strictly anaerobic bacterium isolated from food industry wastewater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:3018-3023.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 62, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:799-800.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Brassicibacter Fang et al. 2012. Publication: Fang MX, Zhang WW, Zhang YZ, Tan HQ, Zhang XQ, Wu M, Zhu XF. Brassicibacter mesophilus gen. nov., sp. nov., a strictly anaerobic bacterium isolated from food industry wastewater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:3018-3023.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Brassicibacter Fang et al. 2012

Assigned by: Fang MX, Zhang WW, Zhang YZ, Tan HQ, Zhang XQ, Wu M, Zhu XF. Brassicibacter mesophilus gen. nov., sp. nov., a strictly anaerobic bacterium isolated from food industry wastewater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:3018-3023.

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