Name: Olivibacter composti Lin et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: com.pos’ti. N.L. gen. neut. n. composti, of compost

Gender: masculine

Type strain: BCRC 80939; CC-KYC063; JCM 31198

See detailed strain information at

16S rRNA gene: KU358715 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Lin SY, Hameed A, Chiu KY, Liu YC, Hsu YH, Lai WA, Young CC. Olivibacter composti sp. nov., isolated from compost collected at a greenhouse. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:148-152.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:765-766.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😢 The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. Contrasting the term "chemotaxonomic" with "phenotypic" is not recommended. Using the term "phylogenetic data" (or equivalent) for sequence data is not advocated. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details. Publication: Göker M. What can genome analysis offer for bacteria? In: Bridge P, Smith D, Stackebrandt E (eds), Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi, CAB International, Wallingford, 2021, p. 255-281.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 In the protologue, the JCM collection number is mistakenly given as CM 31198 instead of JCM 31198. — Leibniz Institute DSMZ. Prokaryotic Nomenclature Up-to-date, 2018-12-11.

Parent taxon: Olivibacter Ntougias et al. 2007

Assigned by: Lin SY, Hameed A, Chiu KY, Liu YC, Hsu YH, Lai WA, Young CC. Olivibacter composti sp. nov., isolated from compost collected at a greenhouse. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:148-152.

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