Name: Microlunatus soli Kämpfer et al. 2010

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: so’li. L. gen. neut. n. soli, of soil, the source of the type strain

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CC 12602; CCM 7685; DSM 21800

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: FJ807672 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kampfer P, Young CC, Busse HJ, Chu JN, Schumann P, Arun AB, Shen FT, Rekha PD. Microlunatus soli sp. nov., isolated from soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:824-827.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1480-1481.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Nouioui et al. 2018 Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 29. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:13-32.

• Notes:
  • 😷 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 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Microlunatus Nakamura et al. 1995

Assigned by: Kampfer P, Young CC, Busse HJ, Chu JN, Schumann P, Arun AB, Shen FT, Rekha PD. Microlunatus soli sp. nov., isolated from soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:824-827.

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Record number: 788496