Name: Hydrotalea sandarakina Albuquerque et al. 2012

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: san.da.ra’ki.na. N.L. fem. adj. sandarakina, of orange colour [probably better: sandaracina]; from Gr. fem. adj. sandarakinê, of orange colour

Gender: feminine

Type strain: AF-51; DSM 23241; LMG 25526

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: JF739858 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Albuquerque L, Rainey FA, Nobre MF, da Costa MS. Hydrotalea sandarakina sp. nov., isolated from a hot spring runoff, and emended descriptions of the genus Hydrotalea and the species Hydrotalea flava. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1603-1608.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 62, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2313-2314.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • García-López et al. 2019 Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083. 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 0.16496 (N = 30).
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 2 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 2". — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Hydrotalea Kämpfer et al. 2011

Assigned by: Albuquerque L, Rainey FA, Nobre MF, da Costa MS. Hydrotalea sandarakina sp. nov., isolated from a hot spring runoff, and emended descriptions of the genus Hydrotalea and the species Hydrotalea flava. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1603-1608.

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Record number: 789993