Name: Paludisphaera borealis Kulichevskaya et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: bo.re.a’lis. L. masc./fem. adj. borealis, pertaining to the north, boreal

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 28747; PX4; VKM B-2904

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KF467528 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kulichevskaya IS, Ivanova AA, Suzina NE, Rijpstra WIC, Sinninghe Damste JS, Dedysh SN. Paludisphaera borealis gen. nov., sp. nov., a hydrolytic planctomycete from northern wetlands, and proposal of Isosphaeraceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:837-844.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1916-1919.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Paludisphaera Kulichevskaya et al. 2016. Publication: Kulichevskaya IS, Ivanova AA, Suzina NE, Rijpstra WIC, Sinninghe Damste JS, Dedysh SN. Paludisphaera borealis gen. nov., sp. nov., a hydrolytic planctomycete from northern wetlands, and proposal of Isosphaeraceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:837-844.
  • 😷 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 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by García-López et al. (2019). Publication: Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083.

Parent taxon: Paludisphaera Kulichevskaya et al. 2016

Assigned by: Kulichevskaya IS, Ivanova AA, Suzina NE, Rijpstra WIC, Sinninghe Damste JS, Dedysh SN. Paludisphaera borealis gen. nov., sp. nov., a hydrolytic planctomycete from northern wetlands, and proposal of Isosphaeraceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:837-844.

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Record number: 793861