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Domain Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Brucella thiophenivorans

Name: Brucella thiophenivorans (Kämpfer et al. 2008) Hördt et al. 2020

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Ochrobactrum thiophenivorans Kämpfer et al. 2008

Etymology: thi.o.phe.ni.vo’rans. N.L. neut. n. thiophenum, thiophene; L. pres. part. vorans, devouring; N.L. fem. part. adj. thiophenivorans, thiophene-devouring, referring to the ability to utilize thiophene 2-carboxylate as a sole source of carbon and sulfur

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CCM 7492; CCUG 55412; DSM 7216

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AM490617 Analyse FASTA

Effective 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.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 194. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4043-4049.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Parent taxon: Brucella Meyer and Shaw 1920 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: 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.

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Record number: 11091
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