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Species Leucobacter japonicus
Name: Leucobacter japonicus (Clark and Hodgkin 2015) Nouioui et al. 2018
Basonym: Leucobacter musarum subsp. japonicus Clark and Hodgkin 2015
Etymology: ja.po’ni.cus. N.L. masc. adj. japonicus, Japanese
Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … ja-PO-ni-kus, masculine
Type strain: CBX130; CIP 110719; DSM 27158; JCM 31936
See detailed strain information at
Conduct genome-based taxonomy at
16S rRNA gene:
KF906846
Analyse
FASTA
Effective 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. 
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IJSEM list:
Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 184. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:3379-3393.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)
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Synonyms:
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Name Kind Leucobacter musarum subsp. japonicus Clark and Hodgkin 2015 homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, distinct rank
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Notes:
- 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.08779 (N = 30).
- 🎓 Name mentioned 0 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
- 🙆 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded pathogenicity of the species itself.
Parent taxon: Leucobacter Takeuchi et al. 1996
Assigned by:
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. 🇩🇪
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Record number: 798756
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