Name: Marinisporobacter balticus Vandieken et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: bal’ti.cus. N.L. masc. adj. balticus, of the Baltic Sea, sampling location of the sediment

Gender: masculine

Type strain: 59.4M; DSM 102940; JCM 31103

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KX822012 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Vandieken V, Niemann H, Engelen B, Cypionka H. Marinisporobacter balticus gen. nov., sp. nov., Desulfosporosinus nitroreducens sp. nov. and Desulfosporosinus fructosivorans sp. nov., new spore-forming bacteria isolated from subsurface sediments of the Baltic Sea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1887-1893.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:3137-3139.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Marinisporobacter Vandieken et al. 2017. Publication: Vandieken V, Niemann H, Engelen B, Cypionka H. Marinisporobacter balticus gen. nov., sp. nov., Desulfosporosinus nitroreducens sp. nov. and Desulfosporosinus fructosivorans sp. nov., new spore-forming bacteria isolated from subsurface sediments of the Baltic Sea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1887-1893.
  • 😷 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: Marinisporobacter Vandieken et al. 2017

Assigned by: Vandieken V, Niemann H, Engelen B, Cypionka H. Marinisporobacter balticus gen. nov., sp. nov., Desulfosporosinus nitroreducens sp. nov. and Desulfosporosinus fructosivorans sp. nov., new spore-forming bacteria isolated from subsurface sediments of the Baltic Sea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1887-1893.

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