Name: Niallia tiangongensis Yuan et al. 2025

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: tian.gong.en’sis. N.L. fem. adj. tiangongensis, pertaining to the Tiangong Space Station

Gender: feminine

Type strain: GDMCC 1.4642; JL1B1071; KCTC 43715

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16S rRNA gene: PQ047668 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Yuan J, Zhang W, Dang L, Song Y, Yin Z, He Z, Xu K, Guo P, Yin H. Niallia tiangongensis sp. nov., isolated from the China Space Station. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6693.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 75, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6765.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: orphaned species (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

• Notes:
  • ❗ Niallia tiangongensis 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 Niallia.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 0 times in PubMed until 2025-03-11.
  • 🙆 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded pathogenicity of other species in the genus.

Parent taxon: Niallia Gupta et al. 2020

Assigned by: Yuan J, Zhang W, Dang L, Song Y, Yin Z, He Z, Xu K, Guo P, Yin H. Niallia tiangongensis sp. nov., isolated from the China Space Station. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6693.

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Record number: 62371