Name: Chryseolinea serpens Kim et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ser’pens. L. masc./fem. n. serpens, a creeping thing, creeper, crawler, snake, serpent, referring to its shape and gliding motility (nominative in apposition)

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-2075; DSM 24574; RYG

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: FR774778 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kim JJ, Alkawally M, Brady AL, Rijpstra WI, Sinninghe Damste JS, Dunfield PF. Chryseolinea serpens gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the phylum Bacteroidetes isolated from soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:654-660.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1581-1583.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • García-López et al. 2019 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. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Chryseolinea Kim et al. 2013. Publication: Kim JJ, Alkawally M, Brady AL, Rijpstra WI, Sinninghe Damste JS, Dunfield PF. Chryseolinea serpens gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the phylum Bacteroidetes isolated from soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:654-660.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 6 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Chryseolinea Kim et al. 2013

Assigned by: Kim JJ, Alkawally M, Brady AL, Rijpstra WI, Sinninghe Damste JS, Dunfield PF. Chryseolinea serpens gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the phylum Bacteroidetes isolated from soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:654-660.

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