Name: Curtobacterium ammoniigenes Aizawa et al. 2007

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: am.mo.ni.i’ge.nes. N.L. fem. n. ammonia, ammonia; Gr. ind. v. gennaô, to produce; N.L. part. adj. ammoniigenes, ammonia-producing

Gender: neuter

Type strain: B 55; DSM 21577; JCM 14609; NBRC 101786; VTCC D6-11

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB266597 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Aizawa T, Ve NB, Kimoto K, Iwabuchi N, Sumida H, Hasegawa I, Sasaki S, Tamura T, Kudo T, Suzuki K, et al. Curtobacterium ammoniigenes sp. nov., an ammonia-producing bacterium isolated from plants inhabiting acidic swamps in actual acid sulfate soil areas of Vietnam. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1447-1452.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2189-2190.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.07789 (N = 46).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 4 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Nouioui et al. (2018). Publication: 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.

Parent taxon: Curtobacterium Yamada and Komagata 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Aizawa T, Ve NB, Kimoto K, Iwabuchi N, Sumida H, Hasegawa I, Sasaki S, Tamura T, Kudo T, Suzuki K, et al. Curtobacterium ammoniigenes sp. nov., an ammonia-producing bacterium isolated from plants inhabiting acidic swamps in actual acid sulfate soil areas of Vietnam. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1447-1452.

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Record number: 786484