Species Cecembia lonarensis

Name: Cecembia lonarensis Anil Kumar et al. 2012

Category, proposed as: species, sp. nov.

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

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: ke-KEM-bi-a lo-na-REN-sis, 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 2026-08-13. 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 8 times in PubMed until 2026-06-11.
  • 🧍 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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