Name: Mitsuaria chitosanitabida Amakata et al. 2005

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: chi’to.san.it.ab’i.da. N.L. neut. n. chitosanum, chitosan; L. fem. adj. tabida, dissolving, decaying, consuming, putrefying; N.L. fem. adj. chitosanitabida, dissolving chitosan, a polysaccharide found in Crustacea, which is a deacetylated derivative of chitin

Gender: feminine

Type strain: 3001; ATCC BAA-476; IAM 14711; JCM 21276; NBRC 102408

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB006851 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Amakata D, Matsuo Y, Shimono K, Park JK, Yun CS, Matsuda H, Yokota A, Kawamukai M. Mitsuaria chitosanitabida gen. nov., sp. nov., an aerobic, chitosanase-producing member of the 'Betaproteobacteria'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1927-1932.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 55, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:7-9.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Roseateles chitosanitabidus (Amakata et al. 2005) Liu et al. 2023

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Roseateles chitosanitabidus (Amakata et al. 2005) Liu et al. 2023	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Mitsuaria Amakata et al. 2005. Publication: Amakata D, Matsuo Y, Shimono K, Park JK, Yun CS, Matsuda H, Yokota A, Kawamukai M. Mitsuaria chitosanitabida gen. nov., sp. nov., an aerobic, chitosanase-producing member of the 'Betaproteobacteria'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1927-1932.
  • ❗ Mitsuaria chitosanitabida 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 Mitsuaria.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 9 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Mitsuaria Amakata et al. 2005

Assigned by: Amakata D, Matsuo Y, Shimono K, Park JK, Yun CS, Matsuda H, Yokota A, Kawamukai M. Mitsuaria chitosanitabida gen. nov., sp. nov., an aerobic, chitosanase-producing member of the 'Betaproteobacteria'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1927-1932.

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