Name: Cyclobacterium qasimii Shivaji et al. 2012

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: qa.sim’i.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. qasimii, of Qasim, named in honour of Professor S. Z. Qasim, the founder of polar biology in India

Gender: neuter

Type strain: KCTC 23011; M12-11B; NBRC 106168

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: FN377719 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Shivaji S, Reddy PV, Rao SS, Begum Z, Manasa P, Srinivas TN. Cyclobacterium qasimii sp. nov., a psychrotolerant bacterium isolated from Arctic marine sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2133-2139.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 62, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2813-2814.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Hahnke et al. 2016 Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:2003. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 26. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2081-2086.

• Notes:
  • 😢 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 5 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by García-López et al. (2019). Publication: Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083.

Parent taxon: Cyclobacterium Raj and Maloy 1990

Assigned by: Shivaji S, Reddy PV, Rao SS, Begum Z, Manasa P, Srinivas TN. Cyclobacterium qasimii sp. nov., a psychrotolerant bacterium isolated from Arctic marine sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2133-2139.

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