Name: Marichromatium fluminis Sucharita et al. 2010

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: flu’mi.nis. L. neut. n. flumen (gen. fluminis), a river; L. gen. neut. n. fluminis, of a river, referring to the isolation of the type strain from sediment of the Baitarani River, located in Kalibanj forest, Orissa, India

Gender: neuter

Type strain: JA418; KCTC 5717; NBRC 105221

See detailed strain information at

16S rRNA gene: FM210274 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Sucharita K, Shiva Kumar E, Sasikala Ch, Panda BB, Takaichi S, Ramana ChV. Marichromatium fluminis sp. nov., a slightly alkaliphilic, phototrophic gammaproteobacterium isolated from river sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1103-1107.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1715-1716.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Phaeochromatium fluminis (Sucharita et al. 2010) Shivali et al. 2012

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Phaeochromatium fluminis (Sucharita et al. 2010) Shivali et al. 2012	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ❗ Marichromatium fluminis 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 Marichromatium.
  • 😷 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 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Marichromatium Imhoff et al. 1998

Assigned by: Sucharita K, Shiva Kumar E, Sasikala Ch, Panda BB, Takaichi S, Ramana ChV. Marichromatium fluminis sp. nov., a slightly alkaliphilic, phototrophic gammaproteobacterium isolated from river sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1103-1107.

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