Name: Lentzea guizhouensis Cao et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: gui.zhou.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. guizhouensis, of or belonging to Guizhou Province, South-west China, the source of the type strain

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CGMCC 4.7203; DHS C013; KCTC 29677

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KM597488 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Cao CL, Zhou XQ, Qin S, Tao FX, Jiang JH, Lian B. Lentzea guizhouensis sp. nov., a novel lithophilous actinobacterium isolated from limestone from the Karst area, Guizhou, China. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2015; 108:1365-1372.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 168. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1603-1606.

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 3 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: Lentzea Yassin et al. 1995

Assigned by: Cao CL, Zhou XQ, Qin S, Tao FX, Jiang JH, Lian B. Lentzea guizhouensis sp. nov., a novel lithophilous actinobacterium isolated from limestone from the Karst area, Guizhou, China. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2015; 108:1365-1372.

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Record number: 793910