Name: Consotaella salsifontis Díaz-Cárdenas et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: sal.si.fon’tis. L. masc. perf. part. salsus, salted; L. masc. n. fons (gen. fontis), a spring, fountain; N.L. gen. masc. n. salsifontis, of a salted spring

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CMPUJ U369; KCTC 22549; USBA 369

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KC807165 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Diaz-Cardenas C, Bernal LF, Caro-Quintero A, Lopez G, David Alzate J, Gonzalez LN, Restrepo S, Shapiro N, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, et al. Draft genome and description of Consotaella salsifontis gen. nov. sp. nov., a halophilic, free-living, nitrogen-fixing alphaproteobacterium isolated from an ancient terrestrial saline spring. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:3744-3751.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:3-6.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Consotaella Díaz-Cárdenas et al. 2017. Publication: Diaz-Cardenas C, Bernal LF, Caro-Quintero A, Lopez G, David Alzate J, Gonzalez LN, Restrepo S, Shapiro N, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, et al. Draft genome and description of Consotaella salsifontis gen. nov. sp. nov., a halophilic, free-living, nitrogen-fixing alphaproteobacterium isolated from an ancient terrestrial saline spring. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:3744-3751.
  • 😷 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 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Hördt et al. (2020). Publication: Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468.

Parent taxon: Consotaella Díaz-Cárdenas et al. 2017

Assigned by: Diaz-Cardenas C, Bernal LF, Caro-Quintero A, Lopez G, David Alzate J, Gonzalez LN, Restrepo S, Shapiro N, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, et al. Draft genome and description of Consotaella salsifontis gen. nov. sp. nov., a halophilic, free-living, nitrogen-fixing alphaproteobacterium isolated from an ancient terrestrial saline spring. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:3744-3751.

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Record number: 796109