Name: Parasphingopyxis lamellibrachiae Uchida et al. 2012

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: la.mel.li.bra’chi.ae. N.L. gen. fem. n. lamellibrachiae, of Lamellibrachia, the genus of the tubeworm from which the bacterium was isolated

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 26725; JAMH 132; JCM 15549; NCIMB 14486

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB524074 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Uchida H, Hamana K, Miyazaki M, Yoshida T, Nogi Y. Parasphingopyxis lamellibrachiae gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a marine annelid worm. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2224-2228.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 62, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2813-2814.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Parasphingopyxis Uchida et al. 2012. Publication: Uchida H, Hamana K, Miyazaki M, Yoshida T, Nogi Y. Parasphingopyxis lamellibrachiae gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a marine annelid worm. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2224-2228.
  • 😷 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 genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project. Publication: Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468.

Parent taxon: Parasphingopyxis Uchida et al. 2012

Assigned by: Uchida H, Hamana K, Miyazaki M, Yoshida T, Nogi Y. Parasphingopyxis lamellibrachiae gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a marine annelid worm. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2224-2228.

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Record number: 790149