Name: Paenisporosarcina antarctica (Yu et al. 2008) Reddy et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Sporosarcina antarctica Yu et al. 2008

Etymology: ant.arc’ti.ca. L. fem. adj. antarctica, southern, of the Antarctic, where the first isolate was isolated

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CGMCC 1.6503; DSM 21991; JCM 14646; N-05

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EF154512 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Reddy GS, Manasa BP, Singh SK, Shivaji S. Paenisporosarcina indica sp. nov., a psychrophilic bacterium from a glacier, and reclassification of Sporosarcina antarctica Yu et al., 2008 as Paenisporosarcina antarctica comb. nov. and emended description of the genus Paenisporosarcina. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2927-2933.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3935-3936.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Sporosarcina antarctica Yu et al. 2008	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 😷 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.

Parent taxon: Paenisporosarcina Krishnamurthi et al. 2009

Assigned by: Reddy GS, Manasa BP, Singh SK, Shivaji S. Paenisporosarcina indica sp. nov., a psychrophilic bacterium from a glacier, and reclassification of Sporosarcina antarctica Yu et al., 2008 as Paenisporosarcina antarctica comb. nov. and emended description of the genus Paenisporosarcina. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2927-2933.

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Record number: 791027