Name: Kordiimonas lipolytica Wu et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: li.po.ly’ti.ca. Gr. neut. n. lipos, fat; N.L. fem. adj. lytica, able to dissolve; from Gr. fem. adj. lytikê, able to dissolve; N.L. fem. adj. lipolytica, fat-dissolving, referring to the property of being able to hydrolyse lipids

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CGMCC 1.15304; JCM 30877; M41

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KR919608 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: 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.

IJSEM list: 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.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Hördt et al. (2020). Publication: 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.

Parent taxon: Kordiimonas Kwon et al. 2005

Assigned by: 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.

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Record number: 794198