Name: Parapedobacter composti Kim et al. 2010

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

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

Gender: masculine

Type strain: 4M40; DSM 22900; JCM 15978; KACC 10972

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: FJ754321 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kim SJ, Weon HY, Kim YS, Yoo SH, Kim BY, Anandham R, Kwon SW. Parapedobacter luteus sp. nov. and Parapedobacter composti sp. nov., isolated from cotton waste compost. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1849-1853.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2511-2512.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • García-López et al. 2019 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. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.05386 (N = 7).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 The epithet composti is a neo-Latin noun, not a latin noun as cited in the paper by Kim et al. 2010. Publication: Euzeby JP. List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:590-592.

Parent taxon: Parapedobacter Kim et al. 2007

Assigned by: Kim SJ, Weon HY, Kim YS, Yoo SH, Kim BY, Anandham R, Kwon SW. Parapedobacter luteus sp. nov. and Parapedobacter composti sp. nov., isolated from cotton waste compost. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1849-1853.

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