Name: Neorhizobium huautlense (Wang et al. 1998) Mousavi et al. 2015

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Rhizobium huautlense Wang et al. 1998

Etymology: hu.autl.en’se. N.L. neut. adj. huautlense, pertaining to Huautla, the region in Mexico where the organisms were isolated

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC BAA-115; CIP 105757; DSM 21817; HAMBI 2409; LMG 18254; SO2; SO2 (The type strain has been deposited in the USDA ARS National Rhizobium Resource Center collection, USA, and in the Culture Collection of Centro de Investigación sobre Fijación de Nitrógeno at UNAM, Cuernavaca, Mexico. Accession numbers not given.)

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AF025852 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 huautlense Wang et al. 1998	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:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 11 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

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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