Name: Cnuibacter physcomitrellae Zhou et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: phys.co.mi.trel’lae. N.L. gen. fem. n. physcomitrellae, of Physcomitrella the scientific name of a moss genus

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CGMCC 1.15041; DSM 29843; XA

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KP334124 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Zhou X, Nan Guo G, Qi Wang L, Lan Bai S, Hong Li Y. Cnuibacter physcomitrellae gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member of the family Microbacteriaceae isolated from the moss of Physcomitrella patens. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:680-688.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1916-1919.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Nouioui et al. 2018 Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 29. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:13-32.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Cnuibacter Zhou et al. 2016. Publication: Zhou X, Nan Guo G, Qi Wang L, Lan Bai S, Hong Li Y. Cnuibacter physcomitrellae gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member of the family Microbacteriaceae isolated from the moss of Physcomitrella patens. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:680-688.
  • 😢 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. 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.

Parent taxon: Cnuibacter Zhou et al. 2016

Assigned by: Zhou X, Nan Guo G, Qi Wang L, Lan Bai S, Hong Li Y. Cnuibacter physcomitrellae gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member of the family Microbacteriaceae isolated from the moss of Physcomitrella patens. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:680-688.

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