Domain Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Pedobacter westerhofensis

Name: Pedobacter westerhofensis Muurholm et al. 2007

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: west.er.hof.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. westerhofensis, pertaining to Westerhof, a village in the Harz Mountains

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CIP 109479; DSM 19036; WB 3.3-22

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AM491369 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Muurholm S, Cousin S, Pauker O, Brambilla E, Stackebrandt E. Pedobacter duraquae sp. nov., Pedobacter westerhofensis sp. nov., Pedobacter metabolipauper sp. nov., Pedobacter hartonius sp. nov. and Pedobacter steynii sp. nov., isolated from a hard-water rivulet. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2221-2227.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:3-4.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Parent taxon: Pedobacter Steyn et al. 1998

Assigned by: Muurholm S, Cousin S, Pauker O, Brambilla E, Stackebrandt E. Pedobacter duraquae sp. nov., Pedobacter westerhofensis sp. nov., Pedobacter metabolipauper sp. nov., Pedobacter hartonius sp. nov. and Pedobacter steynii sp. nov., isolated from a hard-water rivulet. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2221-2227.

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Record number: 786821
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