Name: Pelomonas aquatica Gomila et al. 2007

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: a.qua’ti.ca. L. fem. adj. aquatica, living in water

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CCUG 52575; CECT 7233

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AM501435 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Gomila M, Bowien B, Falsen E, Moore ER, Lalucat J. Description of Pelomonas aquatica sp. nov. and Pelomonas puraquae sp. nov., isolated from industrial and haemodialysis water. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2629-2635.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:313-314.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: orphaned species

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Roseateles aquaticus" (Gomila et al. 2007) Park et al. 2023	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • ❗ Pelomonas aquatica is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Pelomonas.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 6 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 In the paper by Gomila et al. 2007, the GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain is erroneously cited as AM51435. Publication: . Erratum. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2007; 57:2979.

Parent taxon: Pelomonas Xie and Yokota 2005

Assigned by: Gomila M, Bowien B, Falsen E, Moore ER, Lalucat J. Description of Pelomonas aquatica sp. nov. and Pelomonas puraquae sp. nov., isolated from industrial and haemodialysis water. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2629-2635.

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Record number: 786928