Name: Ideonella azotifigens Noar and Buckley 2009

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: a.zo.ti.fi’gens N.L. n. azotum, nitrogen; from French n. azote, nitrogen; from Gr. pref. a-, not; from Gr. n. zôê, life; from N.Gr. n. azôê, not sustaining life; L. v. figere, to fix, attach; N.L. part. adj. azotifigens, nitrogen-fixing

Gender: feminine

Type strains: 1a22; DSM 21438; JCM 15503

See detailed strain information at

16S rRNA gene: EU542576 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Noar JD, Buckley DH. Ideonella azotifigens sp. nov., an aerobic diazotroph of the Betaproteobacteria isolated from grass rhizosphere soil, and emended description of the genus Ideonella. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1941-1946.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2649-2650.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Parent taxon: Ideonella Malmqvist et al. 1994

Assigned by: Noar JD, Buckley DH. Ideonella azotifigens sp. nov., an aerobic diazotroph of the Betaproteobacteria isolated from grass rhizosphere soil, and emended description of the genus Ideonella. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1941-1946.

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