Name: Enterovibrio nigricans Pascual et al. 2009

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ni’gri.cans. L. part. adj. nigricans, being blackish, blackish

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CAIM 661; CECT 7320; DAl 1-1-5; DSM 22720

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AM942722 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Pascual J, Macian MC, Arahal DR, Garay E, Pujalte MJ. Description of Enterovibrio nigricans sp. nov., reclassification of Vibrio calviensis as Enterovibrio calviensis comb. nov. and emended description of the genus Enterovibrio Thompson et al. 2002. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:698-704.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1557-1558.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is -0.01177 (N = 10).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "t+".
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Enterovibrio Thompson et al. 2002

Assigned by: Pascual J, Macian MC, Arahal DR, Garay E, Pujalte MJ. Description of Enterovibrio nigricans sp. nov., reclassification of Vibrio calviensis as Enterovibrio calviensis comb. nov. and emended description of the genus Enterovibrio Thompson et al. 2002. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:698-704.

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Record number: 787780