Name: Isoptericola jiangsuensis Wu et al. 2010

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: jiang.su.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. jiangsuensis, referring to Jiangsu, East Province, PR China, from where the organism was first isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CCTCC AB 208287; CLG; DSM 21863

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EU852101 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Wu Y, Li WJ, Tian W, Zhang LP, Xu L, Shen QR, Shen B. Isoptericola jiangsuensis sp. nov., a chitin-degrading bacterium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:904-908.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1480-1481.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Nouioui et al. 2018 Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 29. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:13-32.

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Isoptericola Stackebrandt et al. 2004

Assigned by: Wu Y, Li WJ, Tian W, Zhang LP, Xu L, Shen QR, Shen B. Isoptericola jiangsuensis sp. nov., a chitin-degrading bacterium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:904-908.

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