Name: Methylobacter tundripaludum Wartiainen et al. 2006

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: tun.dri.pa.lu.dum. N.L. fem. n. tundra, treeless polar region with permanently frozen subsoil; L. fem. n. palus (gen. paludis), marsh; N.L. gen. fem. pl. n. tundripaludum, of the tundra marshes

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-1195; DSM 17260; SV96

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AJ414655 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Wartiainen I, Hestnes AG, McDonald IR, Svenning MM. Methylobacter tundripaludum sp. nov., a methane-oxidizing bacterium from Arctic wetland soil on the Svalbard islands, Norway (78 degrees N). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:109-113.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 56, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:679-680.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 25 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Methylobacter Bowman et al. 1993

Assigned by: Wartiainen I, Hestnes AG, McDonald IR, Svenning MM. Methylobacter tundripaludum sp. nov., a methane-oxidizing bacterium from Arctic wetland soil on the Svalbard islands, Norway (78 degrees N). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:109-113.

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Record number: 777967