Name: Neorhizobium galegae (Lindström 1989) Mousavi et al. 2015

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Rhizobium galegae Lindström 1989

Etymology: N.L. gen. fem. n. galegae, of Galega, a genus of leguminous plants

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC 43677; CIP 105585; DSM 11542; HAMBI 540; IFO 14965; JCM 20973; LMG 6214; NBRC 14965

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: D11343 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Mousavi SA, Osterman J, Wahlberg N, Nesme X, Lavire C, Vial L, Paulin L, de Lajudie P, Lindstrom K. Phylogeny of the Rhizobium-Allorhizobium-Agrobacterium clade supports the delineation of Neorhizobium gen. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2014; 37:208-215.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 161. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1-4.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Rhizobium galegae Lindström 1989	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Emendations:
  • Hördt et al. 2020 Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Neorhizobium Mousavi et al. 2015. Publication: Mousavi SA, Osterman J, Wahlberg N, Nesme X, Lavire C, Vial L, Paulin L, de Lajudie P, Lindstrom K. Phylogeny of the Rhizobium-Allorhizobium-Agrobacterium clade supports the delineation of Neorhizobium gen. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2014; 37:208-215.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 14 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 In the effective publication, Rhizobium vignae Ren at al. 2011 is erroneously stated as another basonym. Publication: Ren da W, Chen WF, Sui XH, Wang ET, Chen WX. Rhizobium vignae sp. nov., a symbiotic bacterium isolated from multiple legume species. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:580-586.

Parent taxon: Neorhizobium Mousavi et al. 2015

Assigned by: Mousavi SA, Osterman J, Wahlberg N, Nesme X, Lavire C, Vial L, Paulin L, de Lajudie P, Lindstrom K. Phylogeny of the Rhizobium-Allorhizobium-Agrobacterium clade supports the delineation of Neorhizobium gen. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2014; 37:208-215.

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