Name: Kordiimonas lacus Xu et al. 2011

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: la’cus L. gen. masc. n. lacus, of a lake or any large body of water, of a tank, referring to the isolation of the type strain from a ballast water tank

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CGMCC 1.9109; DSM 23258; JCM 16261; strain S3-22

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: FJ847942 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Xu XW, Huo YY, Bai XD, Wang CS, Oren A, Li SY, Wu M. Kordiimonas lacus sp. nov., isolated from a ballast water tank, and emended description of the genus Kordiimonas. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:422-426.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 61, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:1014-1015.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Yang et al. 2013 Yang SH, Kim MR, Seo HS, Lee SH, Lee JH, Kim SJ, Kwon KK. Description of Kordiimonas aquimaris sp. nov., isolated from seawater, and emended descriptions of the genus Kordiimonas Kwon et al. 2005 emend. Xu et al. 2011 and of its existing species. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:298-302. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1211-1213.
  • Wu et al. 2016 Wu YH, Jian SL, Meng FX, Maripatay, Tohty D, Wang CS, Xu XW. Kordiimonas lipolytica sp. nov., isolated from seawater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2198-2204. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3765-3767.
  • Hördt et al. 2020 Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.
    Notes:
    • As of 2020-04-15 this emendation was not yet included in an IJSEM List of Changes in Taxonomic Opinion.

Parent taxon: Kordiimonas Kwon et al. 2005

Assigned by: Xu XW, Huo YY, Bai XD, Wang CS, Oren A, Li SY, Wu M. Kordiimonas lacus sp. nov., isolated from a ballast water tank, and emended description of the genus Kordiimonas. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:422-426.

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