Name: Humitalea rosea Margesin and Zhang 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ro’se.a. L. fem. adj. rosea, rose-coloured, pink, referring to the pigmentation of the bacterium

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CIP 110261; DSM 24525; LMG 26243; W37

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: HQ882802 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Margesin R, Zhang DC. Humitalea rosea gen. nov., sp. nov., an aerobic bacteriochlorophyll-containing bacterium of the family Acetobacteraceae isolated from soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1411-1416.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2368-2370.

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:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Humitalea Margesin and Zhang 2013. Publication: Margesin R, Zhang DC. Humitalea rosea gen. nov., sp. nov., an aerobic bacteriochlorophyll-containing bacterium of the family Acetobacteraceae isolated from soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1411-1416.
  • 😷 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: Humitalea Margesin and Zhang 2013

Assigned by: Margesin R, Zhang DC. Humitalea rosea gen. nov., sp. nov., an aerobic bacteriochlorophyll-containing bacterium of the family Acetobacteraceae isolated from soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1411-1416.

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