Name: Crystallibacter degradans Plotnikova et al. 2025

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: de.gra’dans. L. masc. part. adj. degradans, returning to the original order, referring to the ability of the type strain to degrade several complex organic compounds

Gender: masculine

Type strain: LMG 33112; SF27; VKM Ac-2063

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Effective publication: Plotnikova EG, Ariskina EV, Yastrebova OV, Potekhina NV, Avtukh AN, Tarlachkov SV, Starodumova IP, Dorofeeva LV, Evtushenko LI. Proposal of Crystallibacter gen. nov., Crystallibacter permensis sp. nov. and Crystallibacter degradans sp. nov. for the salt-tolerant and aromatics degrading actinobacteria, and reclassification of Arthrobacter crystallopoietes as Crystallibacter crystallifaciens comb. nov. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2024; 118:40.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 224. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6801.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: orphaned species

• Notes:
  • ❗ Crystallibacter degradans is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Crystallibacter.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 0 times in PubMed until 2025-08-12.

Parent taxon: Crystallibacter Plotnikova et al. 2025

Assigned by: Plotnikova EG, Ariskina EV, Yastrebova OV, Potekhina NV, Avtukh AN, Tarlachkov SV, Starodumova IP, Dorofeeva LV, Evtushenko LI. Proposal of Crystallibacter gen. nov., Crystallibacter permensis sp. nov. and Crystallibacter degradans sp. nov. for the salt-tolerant and aromatics degrading actinobacteria, and reclassification of Arthrobacter crystallopoietes as Crystallibacter crystallifaciens comb. nov. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2024; 118:40.

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Record number: 56397