Species ***Paenibacillus* *sonchi***

Name: Paenibacillus sonchi Hong et al. 2009

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: son’chi. N.L. gen. masc. n. sonchi, the herb sowthistle, and also a botanical genus name

Pronunciation, gender: SON-k^hi, masculine

Type strain: CCBAU 83901; LMG 24727; X19-5

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: DQ358736 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Hong YY, Ma YC, Zhou YG, Gao F, Liu HC, Chen SF. Paenibacillus sonchi sp. nov., a nitrogen-fixing species isolated from the rhizosphere of Sonchus oleraceus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2656-2661. 🇨🇳

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:269-270.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

Risk group: 1

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Paenibacillus riograndensis Beneduzi et al. 2010	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Emendations:
- Sant'Anna et al. 2017 Sant'Anna FH, Ambrosini A, de Souza R, de Carvalho Fernandes G, Bach E, Balsanelli E, Baura V, Brito LF, Wendisch VF, de Oliveira Pedrosa F, et al. Reclassification of Paenibacillus riograndensis as a Genomovar of Paenibacillus sonchi: Genome-Based Metrics Improve Bacterial Taxonomic Classification. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:1849. 🇧🇷 Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 28. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:2137-2138.
  Notes:
  - 🫂 Emendation accompanied by a proposal regarding the synonymy of the species.

Notes:
- ⏰ According to SantAnna et al. (2017), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of Paenibacillus riograndensis Beneduzi et al. 2010. Publication: Sant'Anna FH, Ambrosini A, de Souza R, de Carvalho Fernandes G, Bach E, Balsanelli E, Baura V, Brito LF, Wendisch VF, de Oliveira Pedrosa F, et al. Reclassification of Paenibacillus riograndensis as a Genomovar of Paenibacillus sonchi: Genome-Based Metrics Improve Bacterial Taxonomic Classification. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:1849. 🇧🇷
- 🏢 Synonymy of this taxon was mentioned in an IJSEM list. Publication: Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 28. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:2137-2138.
- 😷 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 15 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
- 🙆 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 risk group of the genus.

Parent taxon: Paenibacillus Ash et al. 1994

Assigned by: Hong YY, Ma YC, Zhou YG, Gao F, Liu HC, Chen SF. Paenibacillus sonchi sp. nov., a nitrogen-fixing species isolated from the rhizosphere of Sonchus oleraceus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2656-2661. 🇨🇳

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Species Paenibacillus sonchi

Species ***Paenibacillus* *sonchi***