Name: Myroides xuanwuensis Zhang et al. 2014

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: xuan.wu.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. xuanwuensis, referring to Xuanwu district, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, PR China, where the organism was first isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CCTCC AB 2013145; DSM 27251; JCM 19200; TH-19

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: HF947513 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Zhang ZD, He LY, Huang Z, Sheng XF. Myroides xuanwuensis sp. nov., a mineral-weathering bacterium isolated from forest soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:621-624.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 64, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:1459-1460.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Myroides odoratimimus subsp. xuanwuensis (Zhang et al. 2014) García-López et al. 2020

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Myroides odoratimimus subsp. xuanwuensis (Zhang et al. 2014) García-López et al. 2020	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, distinct rank

• Notes:
  • ❗ Myroides xuanwuensis 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 Myroides.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project. Publication: Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083.

Parent taxon: Myroides Vancanneyt et al. 1996

Assigned by: Zhang ZD, He LY, Huang Z, Sheng XF. Myroides xuanwuensis sp. nov., a mineral-weathering bacterium isolated from forest soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:621-624.

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