Name: Methylibium aquaticum Song and Cho 2007

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: a.qua’ti.cum. L. neut. adj. aquaticum, living in water, aquatic

Gender: neuter

Type strain: DSM 19915; IMCC 1728; KCCM 42364; NBRC 102349

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB681749 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Song J, Cho JC. Methylibium aquaticum sp. nov., a betaproteobacterium isolated from a eutrophic freshwater pond. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2125-2128.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2727-2728.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Piscinibacter aquaticus (Song and Cho 2007) Stackebrandt et al. 2009

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Piscinibacter aquaticus (Song and Cho 2007) Stackebrandt et al. 2009	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ❗ Methylibium aquaticum 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 Methylibium.
  • 😷 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 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Methylibium Nakatsu et al. 2006

Assigned by: Song J, Cho JC. Methylibium aquaticum sp. nov., a betaproteobacterium isolated from a eutrophic freshwater pond. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2125-2128.

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Record number: 786715