Name: Iodobacter arcticus Srinivas et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: arc’ti.cus. L. masc. adj. arcticus, pertaining to the Arctic, the environment from where the type strain was isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: Asd M4-16; CIP 1103011; DSM 100243; M4-16; MTCC 11351

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16S rRNA gene: FM955868 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Srinivas TN, Manasa P, Begum Z, Sunil B, Sailaja B, Singh SK, Prasad S, Shivaji S. Iodobacter arcticus sp. nov., a psychrotolerant bacterium isolated from meltwater stream sediment of an Arctic glacier. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2800-2805.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3935-3936.

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 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 The original spelling, Iodobacter fluviatile (sic), has been corrected by Euzéby 1997. Publication: Euzéby JP. Revised nomenclature of specific or subspecific epithets that do not agree in gender with generic names that end in -bacter. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1997; 47:585.

Parent taxon: Iodobacter Logan 1989

Assigned by: Srinivas TN, Manasa P, Begum Z, Sunil B, Sailaja B, Singh SK, Prasad S, Shivaji S. Iodobacter arcticus sp. nov., a psychrotolerant bacterium isolated from meltwater stream sediment of an Arctic glacier. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2800-2805.

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Record number: 791015