Name: Phytobacter ursingii Pillonetto et al. 2018

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ur.sing’i.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. ursingii, named in honour of the Swedish bacteriologist and taxonomist Jan Ursing

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 27989; CNCTC 5729

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: FJ611881 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Pillonetto M, Arend LN, Faoro H, D'Espindula HRS, Blom J, Smits THM, Mira MT, Rezzonico F. Emended description of the genus Phytobacter, its type species Phytobacter diazotrophicus (Zhang 2008) and description of Phytobacter ursingii sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:176-184.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 68, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:979-981.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "+".
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 4 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Phytobacter Zhang et al. 2017

Assigned by: Pillonetto M, Arend LN, Faoro H, D'Espindula HRS, Blom J, Smits THM, Mira MT, Rezzonico F. Emended description of the genus Phytobacter, its type species Phytobacter diazotrophicus (Zhang 2008) and description of Phytobacter ursingii sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:176-184.

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Record number: 797461