Name: Kocuria indica Dastager et al. 2014

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: in’di.ca. L. fem. adj. indica, pertaining to India, Indian

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CCTCC AB 2011129; DSM 25126; NCIM 5455; NIO-1021

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: HQ858010 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Dastager SG, Tang SK, Srinivasan K, Lee JC, Li WJ. Kocuria indica sp. nov., isolated from a sediment sample. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:869-874.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 64, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:1827-1829.

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 terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. The expression "monophyletic clade" is a pleonasm. Using the term "phylogenetic data" (or equivalent) for sequence data is not advocated. Whether taxa can have "members" is debatable. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details. Publication: Göker M. What can genome analysis offer for bacteria? In: Bridge P, Smith D, Stackebrandt E (eds), Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi, CAB International, Wallingford, 2021, p. 255-281.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 7 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 In the original description, the CCTCC number of the type strain was erroneously given as CCTCC AA 209050. The correct number, CCTCC AB 2011129, was published in a corrigendum. Publication: Dastager SG, Tang SK, Srinivasan K, Lee JC, Li WJ. Corrigendum: Kocuria indica sp. nov., isolated from a sediment sample. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1620.

Parent taxon: Kocuria Stackebrandt et al. 1995

Assigned by: Dastager SG, Tang SK, Srinivasan K, Lee JC, Li WJ. Kocuria indica sp. nov., isolated from a sediment sample. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:869-874.

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