Name: Phaeospirillum tilakii Raj et al. 2012

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ti.la’ki.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. tilakii, of Tilak, named after Dr K. V. B. R. Tilak, an eminent microbiologist in India

Gender: neuter

Type strain: JA492; KCTC 15012; NBRC 107650

See detailed strain information at

16S rRNA gene: FN675262 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Raj PS, Chakravarthy SK, Ramaprasad EV, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV. Phaeospirillum tilakii sp. nov., a phototrophic alphaproteobacterium isolated from aquatic sediments. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1069-1074.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 62, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1723-1724.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: orphaned species

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Magnetospirillum tilakii" (Raj et al. 2012) Hoerdt et al. 2020	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • ❗ Phaeospirillum tilakii 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 1 time 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: Raj PS, Chakravarthy SK, Ramaprasad EV, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV. Phaeospirillum tilakii sp. nov., a phototrophic alphaproteobacterium isolated from aquatic sediments. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1069-1074.

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Record number: 789877