Name: Formosimonas limnophila Chen et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: lim.no’phi.la. Gr. fem. n. limnê, lake, pool of standing water; Gr. masc. adj. philos, loving; N.L. fem. adj. limnophila, lake-loving, isolated from a freshwater lake

Gender: feminine

Type strain: AHQ-12; BCRC 80690; KCTC 32501; LMG 27847

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: HG421033 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Chen WM, Xie PB, Young CC, Sheu SY. Formosimonas limnophila gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Burkholderiaceae isolated from a freshwater lake. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:17-24.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:765-766.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Formosimonas Chen et al. 2017. Publication: Chen WM, Xie PB, Young CC, Sheu SY. Formosimonas limnophila gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Burkholderiaceae isolated from a freshwater lake. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:17-24.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Formosimonas Chen et al. 2017

Assigned by: Chen WM, Xie PB, Young CC, Sheu SY. Formosimonas limnophila gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Burkholderiaceae isolated from a freshwater lake. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:17-24.

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Record number: 795041