Name: Chitinispirillum alkaliphilum Sorokin et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: al.ka.li’phi.lum. N.L. neut. n. alkali, soda ash (indeclinable); N.L. neut. adj. suff. -philum, friend, loving; from Gr. adj. philos -ê -on, loving; N.L. neut. adj. alkaliphilum, alkali-loving

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ACht6-1; DSM 24539; UNIQEM U893

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: JF304644 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Sorokin DY, Rakitin AL, Gumerov VM, Beletsky AV, Sinninghe Damste JS, Mardanov AV, Ravin NV. Phenotypic and Genomic Properties of Chitinispirillum alkaliphilum gen. nov., sp. nov., A Haloalkaliphilic Anaerobic Chitinolytic Bacterium Representing a Novel Class in the Phylum Fibrobacteres. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:407.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 170. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2463-2466.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Chitinispirillum Sorokin et al. 2016. Publication: Sorokin DY, Rakitin AL, Gumerov VM, Beletsky AV, Sinninghe Damste JS, Mardanov AV, Ravin NV. Phenotypic and Genomic Properties of Chitinispirillum alkaliphilum gen. nov., sp. nov., A Haloalkaliphilic Anaerobic Chitinolytic Bacterium Representing a Novel Class in the Phylum Fibrobacteres. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:407.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time 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: Chitinispirillum Sorokin et al. 2016

Assigned by: Sorokin DY, Rakitin AL, Gumerov VM, Beletsky AV, Sinninghe Damste JS, Mardanov AV, Ravin NV. Phenotypic and Genomic Properties of Chitinispirillum alkaliphilum gen. nov., sp. nov., A Haloalkaliphilic Anaerobic Chitinolytic Bacterium Representing a Novel Class in the Phylum Fibrobacteres. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:407.

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