Name: Cellulosimicrobium variabile Bakalidou et al. 2002

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: va.ri.a’bi.le. L. neut. adj. variabile, variable, because the cells form rods or cocci

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC BAA-303; DSM 10177; JCM 11754; MX5

See detailed strain information at

16S rRNA gene: AJ298873 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Bakalidou A, Kampfer P, Berchtold M, Kuhnigk T, Wenzel M, Konig H. Cellulosimicrobium variabile sp. nov., a cellulolytic bacterium from the hindgut of the termite Mastotermes darwiniensis. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1185-1192.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 52, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1439-1440.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Isoptericola variabilis (Bakalidou et al. 2002) Stackebrandt et al. 2004

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Isoptericola variabilis (Bakalidou et al. 2002) Stackebrandt et al. 2004	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • Cellulosimicrobium variabile is the correct name if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Cellulosimicrobium.

Parent taxon: Cellulosimicrobium Schumann et al. 2001

Assigned by: Bakalidou A, Kampfer P, Berchtold M, Kuhnigk T, Wenzel M, Konig H. Cellulosimicrobium variabile sp. nov., a cellulolytic bacterium from the hindgut of the termite Mastotermes darwiniensis. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1185-1192.

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Record number: 774574