Name: Chitinibacter tainanensis Chern et al. 2004

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: tai.na.nen’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. tainanensis, referring to Tainan, a town in Southern Taiwan, the origin of the soil sample from which the type strain was isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: BCRC 17254; DSM 15459; S1

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AY264287 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Chern LL, Stackebrandt E, Lee SF, Lee FL, Chen JK, Fu HM. Chitinibacter tainanensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a chitin-degrading aerobe from soil in Taiwan. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1387-1391.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 54, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1911-1913.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Chitinibacter Chern et al. 2004. Publication: Chern LL, Stackebrandt E, Lee SF, Lee FL, Chen JK, Fu HM. Chitinibacter tainanensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a chitin-degrading aerobe from soil in Taiwan. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1387-1391.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 10 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project. Publication: Mukherjee S, Seshadri R, Varghese NJ, Eloe-Fadrosh EA, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Goker M, Coates RC, Hadjithomas M, Pavlopoulos GA, Paez-Espino D, et al. 1,003 reference genomes of bacterial and archaeal isolates expand coverage of the tree of life. Nat Biotechnol 2017; 35:676-683.

Parent taxon: Chitinibacter Chern et al. 2004

Assigned by: Chern LL, Stackebrandt E, Lee SF, Lee FL, Chen JK, Fu HM. Chitinibacter tainanensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a chitin-degrading aerobe from soil in Taiwan. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1387-1391.

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