Name: Filimonas aurantiibacter Albert et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: au.ran.ti.i.bac’ter. N.L. masc. adj. aurantius, orange, pertaining to colony colour; N.L. masc. n. bacter, rod; N.L. masc. n. aurantiibacter, orange coloured rod (nominative in apposition)

Gender: feminine

Type strain: 1458; LMG 29039; NRRL B-65305

See detailed strain information at

16S rRNA gene: KR780052 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Albert RA, Waas NE, Pavlons SC, Pearson JL, Roecker J, Tewalt N, Cleeve N, Rossello-Mora R, Busse HJ. Filimonas aurantiibacter sp. nov., an orange-pigmented bacterium isolated from lake water and emended description of the genus Filimonas. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4027-4032.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:4-6.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Arvibacter aurantiibacter (Albert et al. 2016) Wang et al. 2019

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Arvibacter aurantiibacter (Albert et al. 2016) Wang et al. 2019	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ❗ Filimonas aurantiibacter is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Filimonas.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Filimonas Shiratori et al. 2009

Assigned by: Albert RA, Waas NE, Pavlons SC, Pearson JL, Roecker J, Tewalt N, Cleeve N, Rossello-Mora R, Busse HJ. Filimonas aurantiibacter sp. nov., an orange-pigmented bacterium isolated from lake water and emended description of the genus Filimonas. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4027-4032.

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Record number: 794636