Name: Modestobacter caceresii Busarakam et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ca.ce.res’i.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. caceresii, named in honour of Luis Cáceres in recognition of his studies on relative humidity patterns and water availability in arid Atacama Desert soils

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CECT 9023; DSM 101691; KNN 45-2b

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: LN898173 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Busarakam K, Bull AT, Trujillo ME, Riesco R, Sangal V, van Wezel GP, Goodfellow M. Modestobacter caceresii sp. nov., novel actinobacteria with an insight into their adaptive mechanisms for survival in extreme hyper-arid Atacama Desert soils. Syst Appl Microbiol 2016; 39:243-251.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 174. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:529-531.

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 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Nouioui et al. (2018). Publication: 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.

Parent taxon: Modestobacter Mevs et al. 2000

Assigned by: Busarakam K, Bull AT, Trujillo ME, Riesco R, Sangal V, van Wezel GP, Goodfellow M. Modestobacter caceresii sp. nov., novel actinobacteria with an insight into their adaptive mechanisms for survival in extreme hyper-arid Atacama Desert soils. Syst Appl Microbiol 2016; 39:243-251.

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