Name: Humibacter aquilariae Lin et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: a.qui.la’ri.ae. N.L. gen. fem. n. aquilariae, of Aquilaria, referring to the isolation of the type strain from the agarwood tree, Aquilaria sinensis

Gender: masculine

Type strain: BCRC 80936; CC-YTH161; JCM 31199

See detailed strain information at

16S rRNA gene: KU248164 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Lin SY, Hameed A, Liu YC, Hsu YH, Hsieh YT, Lai WA, Young CC. Humibacter aquilariae sp. nov., an actinobacterium isolated from an agarwood chip. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1468-1472.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2495-2498.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 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.
  • 🧍 According to Ludwig et al. (2021), this "species affiliates away from its type species and may be reclassified as Cnuibacter". Publication: Ludwig W, Viver T, Westram R, Francisco Gago J, Bustos-Caparros E, Knittel K, Amann R, Rossello-Mora R. Release LTP_12_2020, featuring a new ARB alignment and improved 16S rRNA tree for prokaryotic type strains. Syst Appl Microbiol 2021; 44:126218.

Parent taxon: Humibacter Vaz-Moreira et al. 2008

Assigned by: Lin SY, Hameed A, Liu YC, Hsu YH, Hsieh YT, Lai WA, Young CC. Humibacter aquilariae sp. nov., an actinobacterium isolated from an agarwood chip. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1468-1472.

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