Name: Leptobacterium meishanense Wang et al. 2025

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: mei.sha.nen’se. N.L. neut. adj. meishanense, pertaining to Meishan, an island located in the East China Sea, from which the marine sediment sample was collected

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: lep-to-bak-TE-ri-um me͡i-s͡ha-NEN-se, neuter

Type strain: I13; KCTC 102202; MCCC 1K08929

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16S rRNA gene: OR722219 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Wang H, Wang H, Liu X, Jung D, Seo EY, He S, Zhang W, Ding L. Ascidiimonas meishanensis sp. nov. and Leptobacterium meishanense sp. nov., two bacteria isolated from marine sediment in the East China Sea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6653. 🇨🇳

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 75, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6689.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.00392 (N = 87).
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2026-02-10.

Parent taxon: Leptobacterium Mitra et al. 2009

Assigned by: Wang H, Wang H, Liu X, Jung D, Seo EY, He S, Zhang W, Ding L. Ascidiimonas meishanensis sp. nov. and Leptobacterium meishanense sp. nov., two bacteria isolated from marine sediment in the East China Sea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6653. 🇨🇳

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