Name: Niastella vici Chen et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: vi’ci. L. gen. masc. n. vici, of a village, where the type strain was isolated

Pronunciation, gender: WI-ki, feminine

Type strain: CCTCC AB 2015052; DJ57; KCTC 42474

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KT388748 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Chen L, Wang D, Yang S, Wang G. Niastella vici sp. nov., isolated from farmland soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1768-1772.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2467-2468.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 5 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
  • 🧍 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: Niastella Weon et al. 2006

Assigned by: Chen L, Wang D, Yang S, Wang G. Niastella vici sp. nov., isolated from farmland soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1768-1772.

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Record number: 794054