Name: Pararobbsia alpina (Weber and King 2017) Lin et al. 2020

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Burkholderia alpina Weber and King 2017

Etymology: al.pi’na. L. fem. adj. alpina, pertaining to the Alps and generally from or inhabiting mountainous regions, especially above the tree line, alpina referring to an isolate from an alpine altitude

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 28031; LMG 28138; PO-04-17-38

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16S rRNA gene: JF763852 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Lin QH, Lv YY, Gao ZH, Qiu LH. Pararobbsia silviterrae gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from forest soil and reclassification of Burkholderia alpina as Pararobbsia alpina comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:1412-1420.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 70, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:2967-2971.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

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

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Burkholderia alpina Weber and King 2017	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.01185 (N = 14).
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time 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. This name is not taxonomically suspended any more in favour of Burkholderia alpina Weber and King 2017. Publication: Weber CF, King GM. Volcanic Soils as Sources of Novel CO-Oxidizing Paraburkholderia and Burkholderia: Paraburkholderia hiiakae sp. nov., Paraburkholderia metrosideri sp. nov., Paraburkholderia paradisi sp. nov., Paraburkholderia peleae sp. nov., and Burkholderia alpina sp. nov. a Member of the Burkholderia cepacia Complex. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:207. Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 176. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2075-2078.

Parent taxon: Pararobbsia Lin et al. 2020

Assigned by: Lin QH, Lv YY, Gao ZH, Qiu LH. Pararobbsia silviterrae gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from forest soil and reclassification of Burkholderia alpina as Pararobbsia alpina comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:1412-1420.

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Record number: 7770