Name: Haliscomenobacter hydrossis van Veen et al. 1973 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: hydr.os.sis. Gr. neut. n. hydôr, water; Oss, a town in the Netherlands; N.L. gen. neut. n. hydrossis, from water of Oss

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 27775; DSM 1100; LMG 10767

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AJ784892 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: van Veen WL, van der Kooij D, Geuze EC, van der Vlies AW. Investigations on the sheathed bacterium Haliscomenobacter hydrossis gen.n., sp.n., isolated from activated sludge. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 1973; 39:207-216.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Hahnke et al. 2016 Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:2003. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 26. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2081-2086.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Haliscomenobacter van Veen et al. 1973 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: van Veen WL, van der Kooij D, Geuze EC, van der Vlies AW. Investigations on the sheathed bacterium Haliscomenobacter hydrossis gen.n., sp.n., isolated from activated sludge. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 1973; 39:207-216.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No". — The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 29 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project. Publication: Daligault H, Lapidus A, Zeytun A, Nolan M, Lucas S, Del Rio TG, Tice H, Cheng JF, Tapia R, Han C, et al. Complete genome sequence of Haliscomenobacter hydrossis type strain (O). Stand Genomic Sci 2011; 4:352-360.

Parent taxon: Haliscomenobacter van Veen et al. 1973 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: van Veen WL, van der Kooij D, Geuze EC, van der Vlies AW. Investigations on the sheathed bacterium Haliscomenobacter hydrossis gen.n., sp.n., isolated from activated sludge. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 1973; 39:207-216.

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