Name: Compostimonas suwonensis Kim et al. 2012

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: su.won.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. suwonensis, referring to Suwon region, where the bacterium was first found

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 25625; KACC 13354; NBRC 106304; SMC 46

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: JN000316 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kim SJ, Tamura T, Hamada M, Ahn JH, Weon HY, Park IC, Suzuki K, Kwon SW. Compostimonas suwonensis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from spent mushroom compost. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2410-2416.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 62, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:6-7.

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 Compostimonas Kim et al. 2012. Publication: Kim SJ, Tamura T, Hamada M, Ahn JH, Weon HY, Park IC, Suzuki K, Kwon SW. Compostimonas suwonensis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from spent mushroom compost. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2410-2416.
  • 😢 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 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Compostimonas Kim et al. 2012

Assigned by: Kim SJ, Tamura T, Hamada M, Ahn JH, Weon HY, Park IC, Suzuki K, Kwon SW. Compostimonas suwonensis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from spent mushroom compost. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2410-2416.

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