Name: Chromobacterium rhizoryzae Zhou et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: rhiz.o.ry’zae. Gr. fem. n. rhiza, root; L. gen. fem. n. oryzae, of rice; N.L. gen. fem. n. rhizoryzae, of rice roots

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ACCC 19900; JCM 31180; LAM1188

See detailed strain information at

16S rRNA gene: KT951843 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Zhou S, Guo X, Wang H, Kong D, Wang Y, Zhu J, Dong W, He M, Hu G, Zhao B, et al. Chromobacterium rhizoryzae sp. nov., isolated from rice roots. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3890-3896.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:4-6.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

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. Whether taxa can have "members" is debatable. 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 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 In the protologue of the paper of Zhou et al. 2016 (pp. 3894/3895), the collection number of the type strain is stated as ACCC 1990 (sic). — Leibniz Institute DSMZ. Prokaryotic Nomenclature Up-to-date, 2018-12-11.

Parent taxon: Chromobacterium Bergonzini 1880 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Zhou S, Guo X, Wang H, Kong D, Wang Y, Zhu J, Dong W, He M, Hu G, Zhao B, et al. Chromobacterium rhizoryzae sp. nov., isolated from rice roots. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3890-3896.

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