Name: Kineococcus radiotolerans Phillips et al. 2002

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ra.dio.to.le’rans. L. fem. n. radiatio, radiation; L. v. radio, pertaining to radiation; L. pres. part. tolerans, tolerating; N.L. part. adj. radiotolerans, radiation-tolerating

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-149; DSM 14245; JCM 12686; NBRC 101839; SRS30216

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AF247813 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Phillips RW, Wiegel J, Berry CJ, Fliermans C, Peacock AD, White DC, Shimkets LJ. Kineococcus radiotolerans sp. nov., a radiation-resistant, gram-positive bacterium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:933-938.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 52, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1077-1079.

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 phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.21044 (N = 4).
  • 😷 The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 24 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Kineococcus Yokota et al. 1993

Assigned by: Phillips RW, Wiegel J, Berry CJ, Fliermans C, Peacock AD, White DC, Shimkets LJ. Kineococcus radiotolerans sp. nov., a radiation-resistant, gram-positive bacterium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:933-938.

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Record number: 777099