Species Burkholderia unamae

Name: Burkholderia unamae Caballero-Mellado et al. 2004

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: u’na.mae. N.L. gen. fem. n. unamae, arbitrary name formed from UNAM, acronym for Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México. This name was chosen to commemorate the 450th anniversary of the University, which occurred in the same year as the first isolation of the species (2001)

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: burk-hol-DE-ri-a U-na-ma͡e, feminine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-744; CIP 107921; DSM 17197; MTl-641

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16S rRNA gene: AY221956 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Caballero-Mellado J, Martinez-Aguilar L, Paredes-Valdez G, Santos PE. Burkholderia unamae sp. nov., an N2-fixing rhizospheric and endophytic species. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1165-1172. 🇲🇽

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 54, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1911-1913.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym (and not recommended for medical use)

Correct name: Paraburkholderia unamae (Caballero-Mellado et al. 2004) Sawana et al. 2015

Risk group: 1

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Paraburkholderia unamae (Caballero-Mellado et al. 2004) Sawana et al. 2015	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Notes:
- ❗ Burkholderia unamae is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Burkholderia.
- 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
- 🎓 Name mentioned 9 times in PubMed until 2026-06-11.
- 🙅 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as a synonym of the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded risk group of the genus.

Parent taxon: Burkholderia Yabuuchi et al. 1993

Assigned by: Caballero-Mellado J, Martinez-Aguilar L, Paredes-Valdez G, Santos PE. Burkholderia unamae sp. nov., an N2-fixing rhizospheric and endophytic species. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1165-1172. 🇲🇽

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Species Burkholderia unamae