Name: Lechevalieria xinjiangensis Wang et al. 2007

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: xin.jiang.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. xinjiangensis, referring to Xinjiang, north-western China, the source of the isolate

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CGMCC 4.3525; DSM 45081; JCM 15473; R24

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: DQ898283 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Wang W, Zhang Z, Tang Q, Mao J, Wei D, Huang Y, Liu Z, Shi Y, Goodfellow M. Lechevalieria xinjiangensis sp. nov., a novel actinomycete isolated from radiation-polluted soil in China. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2819-2822.

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: synonym

Correct name: Lentzea xinjiangensis (Wang et al. 2007) Nouioui et al. 2018

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Lentzea xinjiangensis (Wang et al. 2007) Nouioui et al. 2018	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ❗ Lechevalieria xinjiangensis is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Lechevalieria.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Nouioui et al. (2018). Publication: 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.

Parent taxon: Lechevalieria Labeda et al. 2001

Assigned by: Wang W, Zhang Z, Tang Q, Mao J, Wei D, Huang Y, Liu Z, Shi Y, Goodfellow M. Lechevalieria xinjiangensis sp. nov., a novel actinomycete isolated from radiation-polluted soil in China. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2819-2822.

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