Name: Georgenia ruanii Li et al. 2007

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ru.a’ni.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. ruanii, of Ruan, named in honour of Ji-Sheng Ruan (born in 1926), a Chinese microbiologist who devotes himself to the study of actinomycete taxonomy

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CCTCC AB 204065; DSM 17458; JCM 15130; KCTC 19029; NBRC 103883; YIM 4

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: DQ203185 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Li WJ, Xu P, Schumann P, Zhang YQ, Pukall R, Xu LH, Stackebrandt E, Jiang CL. Georgenia ruanii sp. nov., a novel actinobacterium isolated from forest soil in Yunnan (China), and emended description of the genus Georgenia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1424-1428.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2189-2190.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 7 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Georgenia Altenburger et al. 2002

Assigned by: Li WJ, Xu P, Schumann P, Zhang YQ, Pukall R, Xu LH, Stackebrandt E, Jiang CL. Georgenia ruanii sp. nov., a novel actinobacterium isolated from forest soil in Yunnan (China), and emended description of the genus Georgenia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1424-1428.

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Record number: 780622