Name: Chitinibacter fontanus Sheu et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: fon.ta’nus. L. masc. adj. fontanus, of or from a spring or fountain

Gender: masculine

Type strain: BCRC 80923; KCTC 42982; LMG 29289; STM 7

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: LN890296 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Sheu SY, Li YS, Young CC, Chen WM. Chitinibacter fontanus sp. nov., isolated from a spring. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4262-4268.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:4-6.

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: Chitinibacter Chern et al. 2004

Assigned by: Sheu SY, Li YS, Young CC, Chen WM. Chitinibacter fontanus sp. nov., isolated from a spring. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4262-4268.

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Record number: 794699