Name: Patulibacter americanus Reddy and Garcia-Pichel 2009

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: a.me.ri.ca’nus. N.L. masc. adj. americanus, American, referring to the isolation of the type strain from the Colorado Plateau

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-1038; CP177-2; DSM 16676; JCM 16550

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AJ871306 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Reddy GS, Garcia-Pichel F. Description of Patulibacter americanus sp. nov., isolated from biological soil crusts, emended description of the genus Patulibacter Takahashi et al. 2006 and proposal of Solirubrobacterales ord. nov. and Thermoleophilales ord. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:87-94.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:645-646.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Nouioui et al. 2018 Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 29. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:13-32.
    Notes:
    • 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project.

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 4 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 In the protologue of the paper by Reddy and Garcia-Pichel 2009, the type strain DSM 16676 is erroneously cited as DSM 16766. Publication: . Erratum. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2009; 59:449.

Parent taxon: Patulibacter Takahashi et al. 2006

Assigned by: Reddy GS, Garcia-Pichel F. Description of Patulibacter americanus sp. nov., isolated from biological soil crusts, emended description of the genus Patulibacter Takahashi et al. 2006 and proposal of Solirubrobacterales ord. nov. and Thermoleophilales ord. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:87-94.

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