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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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

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

• 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 = 13).
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

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