Species ***Chitinophaga* *costaii***

Classification:

Bacteria Pseudomonadati Bacteroidota Chitinophagia Chitinophagales Chitinophagaceae Chitinophaga Chitinophaga costaii

Name: Chitinophaga costaii Proença et al. 2014

Category, proposed as: species, sp. nov.

Etymology: cos.ta’i.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. costaii, of Costa, named after Milton S. da Costa, a Portuguese microbiologist, for his contributions to the taxonomy of Bacteria

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: k^hi-ti-NO-p^ha-ga kos-TA-i-i, feminine

Type strain: A37T2; CIP 110584; LMG 27458

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KJ654821 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Proenca DN, Nobre MF, Morais PV. Chitinophaga costaii sp. nov., an endophyte of Pinus pinaster, and emended description of Chitinophaga niabensis. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:1237-1243. 🇵🇹

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 64, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2188-2190.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

Risk group: 1

Notes:
- 😢 The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. Contrasting the term "chemotaxonomic" with "phenotypic" is not recommended. Using the term "phylogenetic data" (or equivalent) for sequence data is not advocated. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details. Publication: Göker M. What can genome analysis offer for bacteria? In: Bridge P, Smith D, Stackebrandt E (eds), Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi, CAB International, Wallingford, 2021, p. 255-281. 🇬🇧
- 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2026-08-13. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
- 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2026-06-11.
- 🙆 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded pathogenicity of other species in the genus.
- 🧍 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: Chitinophaga Sangkhobol and Skerman 1981

Assigned by: Proenca DN, Nobre MF, Morais PV. Chitinophaga costaii sp. nov., an endophyte of Pinus pinaster, and emended description of Chitinophaga niabensis. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:1237-1243. 🇵🇹

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