Name: Noviherbaspirillum autotrophicum Ishii et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: au.to.tro’phi.cum. Gr. masc. pron. autos, self; Gr. masc. adj. trophikos, nursing, tending, or feeding; N.L. neut. adj. autotrophicum, self-nursing or self-feeding, i.e. able to grow with carbon dioxide as a sole carbon source

Gender: neuter

Type strain: DSM 25787; JCM 17723; TSA66

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB542418 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Ishii S, Ashida N, Ohno H, Segawa T, Yabe S, Otsuka S, Yokota A, Senoo K. Noviherbaspirillum denitrificans sp. nov., a denitrifying bacterium isolated from rice paddy soil and Noviherbaspirillum autotrophicum sp. nov., a denitrifying, facultatively autotrophic bacterium isolated from rice paddy soil and proposal to reclassify Herbaspirillum massiliense as Noviherbaspirillum massiliense comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1841-1848.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:3137-3139.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.02230 (N = 4).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Noviherbaspirillum Lin et al. 2013

Assigned by: Ishii S, Ashida N, Ohno H, Segawa T, Yabe S, Otsuka S, Yokota A, Senoo K. Noviherbaspirillum denitrificans sp. nov., a denitrifying bacterium isolated from rice paddy soil and Noviherbaspirillum autotrophicum sp. nov., a denitrifying, facultatively autotrophic bacterium isolated from rice paddy soil and proposal to reclassify Herbaspirillum massiliense as Noviherbaspirillum massiliense comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1841-1848.

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Record number: 795434