Name: Chitinivibrio alkaliphilus Sorokin et al. 2014

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: al.ka.li’phi.lus. N.L. neut. n. alkali, soda ash (indeclinable); N.L. adj. philus -a -um, friend, loving; from Gr. adj. philos -ê -on, loving; N.L. masc. adj. alkaliphilus, alkali-loving

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ACht1; DSM 24538; UNIQEM U887

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: JF304641 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Sorokin DY, Gumerov VM, Rakitin AL, Beletsky AV, Damste JS, Muyzer G, Mardanov AV, Ravin NV. Genome analysis of Chitinivibrio alkaliphilus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel extremely haloalkaliphilic anaerobic chitinolytic bacterium from the candidate phylum Termite Group 3. Environ Microbiol 2014; 16:1549-1565.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 160. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3603-3606.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Chitinivibrio Sorokin et al. 2014. Publication: Sorokin DY, Gumerov VM, Rakitin AL, Beletsky AV, Damste JS, Muyzer G, Mardanov AV, Ravin NV. Genome analysis of Chitinivibrio alkaliphilus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel extremely haloalkaliphilic anaerobic chitinolytic bacterium from the candidate phylum Termite Group 3. Environ Microbiol 2014; 16:1549-1565.
  • 😷 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 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 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: Chitinivibrio Sorokin et al. 2014

Assigned by: Sorokin DY, Gumerov VM, Rakitin AL, Beletsky AV, Damste JS, Muyzer G, Mardanov AV, Ravin NV. Genome analysis of Chitinivibrio alkaliphilus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel extremely haloalkaliphilic anaerobic chitinolytic bacterium from the candidate phylum Termite Group 3. Environ Microbiol 2014; 16:1549-1565.

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