Name: Cecembia lonarensis Anil Kumar et al. 2012

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: lo.na.ren’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. lonarensis, of or belonging to Lonar lake, referring to the isolation source of the type strain

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CCUG 58316; KCTC 22772; LW9

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: FN393747 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Anil Kumar P, Srinivas TN, Madhu S, Sravan R, Singh S, Naqvi SW, Mayilraj S, Shivaji S. Cecembia lonarensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a haloalkalitolerant bacterium of the family Cyclobacteriaceae, isolated from a haloalkaline lake and emended descriptions of the genera Indibacter, Nitritalea and Belliella. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2252-2258.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 62, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2813-2814.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Cecembia Anil Kumar et al. 2012. Publication: Anil Kumar P, Srinivas TN, Madhu S, Sravan R, Singh S, Naqvi SW, Mayilraj S, Shivaji S. Cecembia lonarensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a haloalkalitolerant bacterium of the family Cyclobacteriaceae, isolated from a haloalkaline lake and emended descriptions of the genera Indibacter, Nitritalea and Belliella. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2252-2258.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 7 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by García-López et al. (2019). Publication: Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083.

Parent taxon: Cecembia Anil Kumar et al. 2012

Assigned by: Anil Kumar P, Srinivas TN, Madhu S, Sravan R, Singh S, Naqvi SW, Mayilraj S, Shivaji S. Cecembia lonarensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a haloalkalitolerant bacterium of the family Cyclobacteriaceae, isolated from a haloalkaline lake and emended descriptions of the genera Indibacter, Nitritalea and Belliella. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2252-2258.

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