Name: Ideonella sakaiensis Tanasupawat et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: sa.kai.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. sakaiensis, pertaining to Sakai city in Japan where the first strain was isolated

Gender: feminine

Type strain: 201-F6; GDMCC 1.2597; NBRC 110686; NCTC 14201; TISTR 2288

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: LC002525 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Tanasupawat S, Takehana T, Yoshida S, Hiraga K, Oda K. Ideonella sakaiensis sp. nov., isolated from a microbial consortium that degrades poly(ethylene terephthalate). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2813-2818.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4306-4309.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Piscinibacter sakaiensis (Tanasupawat et al. 2016) Liu et al. 2023

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Piscinibacter sakaiensis (Tanasupawat et al. 2016) Liu et al. 2023	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ❗ Ideonella sakaiensis is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Ideonella.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 104 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Ideonella Malmqvist et al. 1994

Assigned by: Tanasupawat S, Takehana T, Yoshida S, Hiraga K, Oda K. Ideonella sakaiensis sp. nov., isolated from a microbial consortium that degrades poly(ethylene terephthalate). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2813-2818.

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Record number: 794364