Name: Phaeospirillum chandramohanii Anil Kumar et al. 2009

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: chan.dra.mo.han’i.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. chandramohanii, of Chandramohan, named after Dr D. Chandramohan, an Indian marine microbiologist, who has played a crucial role in transforming microbiological research at the National Institute of Oceanography, India into technologically rewarding activities

Gender: neuter

Type strain: JA145; JCM 14933; KCTC 5703; NBRC 104961

See detailed strain information at

16S rRNA gene: AM779061 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Anil Kumar P, Srinivas TN, Takaichi S, Maoka T, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV. Phaeospirillum chandramohanii sp. nov., a phototrophic alphaproteobacterium with carotenoid glycosides. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2089-2093.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2649-2650.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: orphaned species

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Magnetospirillum chandramohanii" (Anil Kumar et al. 2009) Hoerdt et al. 2020	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • ❗ Phaeospirillum chandramohanii 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 Phaeospirillum.
  • 😷 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 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 According to Ludwig et al. (2021), this "species affiliates with Magnetospirillum and should be reclassified". Publication: Ludwig W, Viver T, Westram R, Francisco Gago J, Bustos-Caparros E, Knittel K, Amann R, Rossello-Mora R. Release LTP_12_2020, featuring a new ARB alignment and improved 16S rRNA tree for prokaryotic type strains. Syst Appl Microbiol 2021; 44:126218.

Parent taxon: Phaeospirillum Imhoff et al. 1998

Assigned by: Anil Kumar P, Srinivas TN, Takaichi S, Maoka T, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV. Phaeospirillum chandramohanii sp. nov., a phototrophic alphaproteobacterium with carotenoid glycosides. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2089-2093.

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Record number: 788061