Name: Chromatium okenii (Ehrenberg 1838) Perty 1852 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: "Monas okenii" Ehrenberg 1838

Etymology: oken’i.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. okenii, of Oken, named for L. Oken, a German naturalist

Gender: neuter

Type strain: 1111; DSM 169; Ostrau; SMG 169

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AJ223234 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Perty M. Zur Kenntnis kleinster Lebensformen I-VIII. Jent and Reinert, Bern, 1852.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Monas okenii" Ehrenberg 1838	homotypic synonym, not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Chromatium Perty 1852 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Perty M. Zur Kenntnis kleinster Lebensformen I-VIII. Jent and Reinert, Bern, 1852.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No". — The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 19 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Chromatium Perty 1852 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Perty M. Zur Kenntnis kleinster Lebensformen I-VIII. Jent and Reinert, Bern, 1852.

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Record number: 774684