Name: Nafulsella turpanensis Zhang et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: tur.pan.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. turpanensis, of or pertaining to Turpan, the city in Xinjiang province, north-western China where the type strain was isolated

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CCTCC AB 208222; KCTC 23983; ZLM-10

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: JN899241 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Zhang L, Shen X, Liu Y, Li S. Nafulsella turpanensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the phylum Bacteroidetes isolated from soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1639-1645.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2755-2756.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Nafulsella Zhang et al. 2013. Publication: Zhang L, Shen X, Liu Y, Li S. Nafulsella turpanensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the phylum Bacteroidetes isolated from soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1639-1645.
  • 😷 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.
  • 🧍 According to Ludwig et al. (2021), this "species affiliates away from the type species of the genus and may be reclassified within the Reichenbachiellaceae". Publication: Ludwig W, Viver T, Westram R, Francisco Gago J, Bustos-Caparros E, Knittel K, Amann R, Rossello-Mora R. Release LTP_12_2020, featuring a new ARB alignment and improved 16S rRNA tree for prokaryotic type strains. Syst Appl Microbiol 2021; 44:126218.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by García-López et al. (2019). 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: Nafulsella Zhang et al. 2013

Assigned by: Zhang L, Shen X, Liu Y, Li S. Nafulsella turpanensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the phylum Bacteroidetes isolated from soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1639-1645.

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