Name: Carnobacterium pleistocenium Pikuta et al. 2005

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ple.is.to.ce.ni.um. N.L. neut. adj. pleistocenium, belonging to the Pleistocene, a geological epoch

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC BAA-754; CIP 108033; DSM 17715; FTR1; JCM 12174

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AF450136 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Pikuta EV, Marsic D, Bej A, Tang J, Krader P, Hoover RB. Carnobacterium pleistocenium sp. nov., a novel psychrotolerant, facultative anaerobe isolated from permafrost of the Fox Tunnel in Alaska. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:473-478.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 55, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:987-991.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 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 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Carnobacterium Collins et al. 1987

Assigned by: Pikuta EV, Marsic D, Bej A, Tang J, Krader P, Hoover RB. Carnobacterium pleistocenium sp. nov., a novel psychrotolerant, facultative anaerobe isolated from permafrost of the Fox Tunnel in Alaska. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:473-478.

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Record number: 774489