Name: Methylopila helvetica Doronina et al. 2000

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: hel.ve’ti.ca. N.L. fem. adj. helvetica, from Helvetia, an old name of Switzerland

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CIP 106788; DM9; DSM 22800; VKM B-2189

See detailed strain information at

16S rRNA gene: AF227126 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Doronina NV, Trotsenko YA, Tourova TP, Kuznetsov BB, Leisinger T. Methylopila helvetica sp. nov. and Methylobacterium dichloromethanicum sp. nov.--novel aerobic facultatively methylotrophic bacteria utilizing dichloromethane. Syst Appl Microbiol 2000; 23:210-218.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 77. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:1953.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Albibacter helveticus (Doronina et al. 2000) Yang et al. 2016

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Albibacter helveticus (Doronina et al. 2000) Yang et al. 2016	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ❗ Methylopila helvetica 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 Methylopila.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 6 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Methylopila Doronina et al. 1998

Assigned by: Doronina NV, Trotsenko YA, Tourova TP, Kuznetsov BB, Leisinger T. Methylopila helvetica sp. nov. and Methylobacterium dichloromethanicum sp. nov.--novel aerobic facultatively methylotrophic bacteria utilizing dichloromethane. Syst Appl Microbiol 2000; 23:210-218.

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