Name: Gracilimonas mengyeensis Wang et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: men.gye.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. mengyeensis, of or belonging to the Mengye salt mine, where the type strain was isolated [probably better: mengyensis]

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ACCC 10717; DSM 21985; YIM J14

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KC561141 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Wang YX, Li YP, Liu JH, Xiao W, Lai YH, Li ZY, Ding ZG, Wen ML, Cui XL. Gracilimonas mengyeensis sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from a salt mine in Yunnan, south-western China. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3989-3993.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:313-315.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • García-López et al. 2019 Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 4 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Gracilimonas Choi et al. 2009

Assigned by: Wang YX, Li YP, Liu JH, Xiao W, Lai YH, Li ZY, Ding ZG, Wen ML, Cui XL. Gracilimonas mengyeensis sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from a salt mine in Yunnan, south-western China. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3989-3993.

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