Name: Caenispirillum salinarum Ritika et al. 2012

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: sa.li.na’rum. L. gen. fem. n. salinae, saltpits, saltworks; L. gen. fem. pl. n. salinarum, of saltworks, from which the type strain was isolated

Gender: neuter

Type strain: AK4; JCM 17360; MTCC 10963

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: FN995238 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Ritika C, Suresh K, Kumar PA. Caenispirillum salinarum sp. nov., a member of the family Rhodospirillaceae isolated from a solar saltern. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1698-1702.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 62, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2313-2314.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Hördt et al. 2020 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. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.13616 (N = 15).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 4 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 The epithet salinarum is a Latin genitive plural noun, not a neo-Latin genitive plural noun as cited in the paper by Ritika et al. 2012. Publication: Euzeby JP. List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:590-592.

Parent taxon: Caenispirillum Yoon et al. 2007

Assigned by: Ritika C, Suresh K, Kumar PA. Caenispirillum salinarum sp. nov., a member of the family Rhodospirillaceae isolated from a solar saltern. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1698-1702.

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