Name: Methylibium subsaxonicum Stackebrandt et al. 2008

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: sub.sa.xo’ni.cum. L. prep. sub, low, below, under; M.L. adj. saxonicus -a -um, pertaining to Saxony; N.L. neut. adj. subsaxonicum, pertaining to Lower Saxony, a state of Germany

Gender: neuter

Type strain: BF49; CIP 109700; DSM 19570

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AM774413 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Stackebrandt E, Fruhling A, Cousin S, Brambilla E, Lunsdorf H, Verbarg S. Methylibium subsaxonicum spec. nov., a betaproteobacterium Isolated from a hardwater rivulet. Curr Microbiol 2008; 56:298-305.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 122. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1511-1512.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Rivibacter subsaxonicus (Stackebrandt et al. 2008) Stackebrandt et al. 2009

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Rivibacter subsaxonicus (Stackebrandt et al. 2008) Stackebrandt et al. 2009	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ❗ Methylibium subsaxonicum 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 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Methylibium Nakatsu et al. 2006

Assigned by: Stackebrandt E, Fruhling A, Cousin S, Brambilla E, Lunsdorf H, Verbarg S. Methylibium subsaxonicum spec. nov., a betaproteobacterium Isolated from a hardwater rivulet. Curr Microbiol 2008; 56:298-305.

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Record number: 787419