Name: Kineococcus xinjiangensis Liu et al. 2009

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: xin.jiang.en’sis N.L. masc./fem. adj. xinjiangensis, pertaining to Xinjiang, a province in north-west China, where the type strain was isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strains: CCTCC AB 207179; DSM 22857; JCM 16219; KCTC 19474; S2-20

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EU543662 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Liu M, Peng F, Wang Y, Zhang K, Chen G, Fang C. Kineococcus xinjiangensis sp. nov., isolated from desert sand. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1090-1093.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1853-1855.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

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.

Parent taxon: Kineococcus Yokota et al. 1993

Assigned by: Liu M, Peng F, Wang Y, Zhang K, Chen G, Fang C. Kineococcus xinjiangensis sp. nov., isolated from desert sand. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1090-1093.

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