Name: Candidimonas humi Vaz-Moreira et al. 2011

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: hu’mi. L. fem. n. humus, earth, soil and, in earth sciences or agriculture, humus; L. gen. fem. n. humi, of the soil, of the humus

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CCUG 55807; DSM 25336; LMG 24813; SC 92

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: MH553020 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Vaz-Moreira I, Figueira V, Lopes AR, De Brandt E, Vandamme P, Nunes OC, Manaia CM. Candidimonas nitroreducens gen. nov., sp. nov. and Candidimonas humi sp. nov., isolated from sewage sludge compost. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:2238-2246.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 61, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:2797-2798.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😢 The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. The phrase "validly described" is misleading. Whether taxa can have "members" is debatable. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details. Publication: Göker M. What can genome analysis offer for bacteria? In: Bridge P, Smith D, Stackebrandt E (eds), Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi, CAB International, Wallingford, 2021, p. 255-281.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Candidimonas Vaz-Moreira et al. 2011

Assigned by: Vaz-Moreira I, Figueira V, Lopes AR, De Brandt E, Vandamme P, Nunes OC, Manaia CM. Candidimonas nitroreducens gen. nov., sp. nov. and Candidimonas humi sp. nov., isolated from sewage sludge compost. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:2238-2246.

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