Name: Dehalogenimonas alkenigignens Bowman et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: al.ke.ni.gi’gnens. N.L. neut. n. alkenum, alkene; L. pres. part. gignens, giving birth to, producing; N.L. part. adj. alkenigignens, producing alkene, because alkenes are produced during anaerobic reductive dehalogenation of chlorinated alkanes

Gender: feminine

Type strain: IP3-3; JCM 17062; NRRL B-59545

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: JQ994266 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Bowman KS, Nobre MF, da Costa MS, Rainey FA, Moe WM. Dehalogenimonas alkenigignens sp. nov., a chlorinated-alkane-dehalogenating bacterium isolated from groundwater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1492-1498.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2368-2370.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Key et al. 2017 Key TA, Bowman KS, Lee I, Chun J, Albuquerque L, da Costa MS, Rainey FA, Moe WM. Dehalogenimonas formicexedens sp. nov., a chlorinated alkane-respiring bacterium isolated from contaminated groundwater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1366-1373. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2495-2498.

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 8 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 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: Dehalogenimonas Moe et al. 2009

Assigned by: Bowman KS, Nobre MF, da Costa MS, Rainey FA, Moe WM. Dehalogenimonas alkenigignens sp. nov., a chlorinated-alkane-dehalogenating bacterium isolated from groundwater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1492-1498.

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Record number: 790685