Name: Herbidospora mongoliensis Ara et al. 2012

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: mon.go.li.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. mongoliensis, of or belonging to Mongolia, isolated from soil of Mongolia

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 46709; MN08-A0118; NBRC 105882; VTCC D9-22

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB530492 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Ara I, Tsetseg B, Daram D, Suto M, Ando K. Herbidospora mongoliensis sp. nov., isolated from soil, and reclassification of Herbidospora osyris and Streptosporangium claviforme as synonyms of Herbidospora cretacea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2322-2329.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 62, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:6-7.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.19656 (N = 13).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Nouioui et al. (2018). Publication: Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007.

Parent taxon: Herbidospora Kudo et al. 1993

Assigned by: Ara I, Tsetseg B, Daram D, Suto M, Ando K. Herbidospora mongoliensis sp. nov., isolated from soil, and reclassification of Herbidospora osyris and Streptosporangium claviforme as synonyms of Herbidospora cretacea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2322-2329.

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Record number: 790201