Name: Humibacter albus Vaz-Moreira et al. 2008

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: al’bus. L. masc. adj. albus, white

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CCUG 54538; DSM 18994; JCM 16029; LMG 23996; SC 83

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AM494541 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Vaz-Moreira I, Nobre MF, Ferreira AC, Schumann P, Nunes OC, Manaia CM. Humibacter albus gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from sewage sludge compost. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1014-1018.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 58, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1513-1514.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Humibacter Vaz-Moreira et al. 2008. Publication: Vaz-Moreira I, Nobre MF, Ferreira AC, Schumann P, Nunes OC, Manaia CM. Humibacter albus gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from sewage sludge compost. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1014-1018.
  • 😷 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.
  • 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project. 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: Humibacter Vaz-Moreira et al. 2008

Assigned by: Vaz-Moreira I, Nobre MF, Ferreira AC, Schumann P, Nunes OC, Manaia CM. Humibacter albus gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from sewage sludge compost. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1014-1018.

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