Name: Nitratireductor indicus Lai et al. 2011

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: in’di.cus. L. masc. adj. indicus, Indian, referring to the Indian Ocean, from where the type strain was isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: C115; CCTCC AB 209298; LMG 25540; MCCC 1A01260; RC92-7

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: GU447302 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Lai Q, Yu Z, Yuan J, Sun F, Shao Z. Nitratireductor indicus sp. nov., isolated from deep-sea water. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:295-298.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 61, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:1014-1015.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• 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 phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.08133 (N = 14).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 5 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Nitratireductor Labbé et al. 2004

Assigned by: Lai Q, Yu Z, Yuan J, Sun F, Shao Z. Nitratireductor indicus sp. nov., isolated from deep-sea water. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:295-298.

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