Name: Frondihabitans australicus (Zhang et al. 2007) Greene et al. 2009

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Frondicola australicus Zhang et al. 2007

Etymology: aus.tra’li.cus. N.L. masc. adj. australicus, pertaining to Australia

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 17894; E1HC-02; JCM 13598

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: DQ525859 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Greene AC, Euzeby JP, Tindall BJ, Patel BK. Proposal of Frondihabitans gen. nov. to replace the illegitimate genus name Frondicola Zhang et al. 2007. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:447-448.

IJSEM list: 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.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Frondicola australicus Zhang et al. 2007	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Frondihabitans Greene et al. 2009. Publication: Greene AC, Euzeby JP, Tindall BJ, Patel BK. Proposal of Frondihabitans gen. nov. to replace the illegitimate genus name Frondicola Zhang et al. 2007. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:447-448.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 6 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 Replacement of the illegitimate name Frondicola australicus Zhang et al. 2007, which is illegitimate because of precedence of a fungal genus name Frondicola Hyde 1992 [Frondicola K.D. Hyde, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 110(2), 100 (1992)]. See Principle 2. Consequently, a new species designation Frondihabitans australicus (Zhang et al. 2007) Greene et al. 2009 has been proposed by Greene et al. 2009. Publication: Zhang L, Xu Z, Patel BK. Frondicola australicus gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from decaying leaf litter from a pine forest. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1177-1182.

Parent taxon: Frondihabitans Greene et al. 2009

Assigned by: Greene AC, Euzeby JP, Tindall BJ, Patel BK. Proposal of Frondihabitans gen. nov. to replace the illegitimate genus name Frondicola Zhang et al. 2007. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:447-448.

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