Name: Knoellia aerolata Weon et al. 2007

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ae.ro.la’ta. Gr. masc. n. aêr (gen. aeros), air; L. masc. perf. part. latus, carried; N.L. fem. part. adj. aerolata, airborne

Gender: feminine

Type strain: 5317S-21; DSM 18566; JCM 16377; KACC 20583

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EF553529 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Weon HY, Kim BY, Schumann P, Kroppenstedt RM, Noh HJ, Park CW, Kwon SW. Knoellia aerolata sp. nov., isolated from an air sample in Korea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2861-2864.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:531-532.

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 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Knoellia Groth et al. 2002

Assigned by: Weon HY, Kim BY, Schumann P, Kroppenstedt RM, Noh HJ, Park CW, Kwon SW. Knoellia aerolata sp. nov., isolated from an air sample in Korea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2861-2864.

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Record number: 786976