Name: Methylocella silvestris Dunfield et al. 2003

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: sil.ves’tris. L. masc./fem. adj. silvestris, of the forest

Gender: feminine

Type strain: BL2; DSM 15510; NCIMB 13906

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AJ491847 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Dunfield PF, Khmelenina VN, Suzina NE, Trotsenko YA, Dedysh SN. Methylocella silvestris sp. nov., a novel methanotroph isolated from an acidic forest cambisol. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1231-1239.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 53, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:3-6.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Hördt et al. 2020 Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 24 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Methylocella Dedysh et al. 2000

Assigned by: Dunfield PF, Khmelenina VN, Suzina NE, Trotsenko YA, Dedysh SN. Methylocella silvestris sp. nov., a novel methanotroph isolated from an acidic forest cambisol. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1231-1239.

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Record number: 777991