Etymology:
fi’cus. N.L. fem. n.Ficus, a fig tree and the name of a botanical genus; N.L. gen. fem. n.ficus, of Ficus, referring to the isolation of the type strain from the rhizosphere of Ficus religiosa L.
Valid publication:
Lai WA, Kampfer P, Arun AB, Shen FT, Huber B, Rekha PD, Young CC. Deinococcus ficus sp. nov., isolated from the rhizosphere of Ficus religiosa L. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:787-791.
IJSEM list:
Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 56, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1461-1462.
Nomenclatural status:
validly published under the ICNP
heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
Emendations:
Kämpfer 2009
Kampfer P. Deinococcus mumbaiensis Shashidhar and Bandekar 2006 is a later heterotypic synonym of Deinococcus ficus Lai et al. 2006. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:365-366.
Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:926-927. Notes:
🫂 Emendation accompanied by a proposal regarding the synonymy of the species.
García-López et al. 2019
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.
Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090. Notes:
🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project.
Notes:
⏰ According to Kaempfer (2009), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of Deinococcusmumbaiensis Shashidhar and Bandekar 2006.Publication:
Kampfer P. Deinococcus mumbaiensis Shashidhar and Bandekar 2006 is a later heterotypic synonym of Deinococcus ficus Lai et al. 2006. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:365-366.
🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.14168 (N = 1).
😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
🎓 Name mentioned 14 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
🧍 In the paper by Lai et al. 2006, the type strain CCUG 51391 is erroneously cited as CCUG 53391. — Falsen E. Personal communication, 2006-06-26.
Assigned by:
Lai WA, Kampfer P, Arun AB, Shen FT, Huber B, Rekha PD, Young CC. Deinococcus ficus sp. nov., isolated from the rhizosphere of Ficus religiosa L. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:787-791.
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