Name: Hoeflea olei Rahul et al. 2015

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: o’le.i. L. gen. neut. n. olei, of oil

Gender: feminine

Type strain: JC234; KCTC 42071; LMG 28200

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: HG965759 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Rahul K, Azmatunnisa M, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV. Hoeflea olei sp. nov., a diesel-oil-degrading, anoxygenic, phototrophic bacterium isolated from backwaters and emended description of the genus Hoeflea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:2403-2409.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 65, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:3768-3770.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Hördt et al. 2020 Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468. 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 phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.07089 (N = 14).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Hoeflea Peix et al. 2005

Assigned by: Rahul K, Azmatunnisa M, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV. Hoeflea olei sp. nov., a diesel-oil-degrading, anoxygenic, phototrophic bacterium isolated from backwaters and emended description of the genus Hoeflea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:2403-2409.

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Record number: 793090