Name: Gluconacetobacter medellinensis Castro et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: me.del.lin.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. medellinensis, of or belonging to Medellin, referring to the city, the origin of fruit vinegar from which an isolate was obtained

Gender: masculine

Type strain: IFO 3288; Kondo 51; LMG 1693; NBRC 3288

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB680048 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Castro C, Cleenwerck I, Trcek J, Zuluaga R, De Vos P, Caro G, Aguirre R, Putaux JL, Ganan P. Gluconacetobacter medellinensis sp. nov., cellulose- and non-cellulose-producing acetic acid bacteria isolated from vinegar. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1119-1125.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1939-1941.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Komagataeibacter medellinensis (Castro et al. 2013) Yamada 2014

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Komagataeibacter medellinensis (Castro et al. 2013) Yamada 2014	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🙄 The epithet of this taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "medellensis".
  • ❗ Gluconacetobacter medellinensis 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 Gluconacetobacter.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Gluconacetobacter corrig. Yamada et al. 1998

Assigned by: Castro C, Cleenwerck I, Trcek J, Zuluaga R, De Vos P, Caro G, Aguirre R, Putaux JL, Ganan P. Gluconacetobacter medellinensis sp. nov., cellulose- and non-cellulose-producing acetic acid bacteria isolated from vinegar. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1119-1125.

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Record number: 790617