Name: Polymorphobacter fuscus Jia et al. 2015

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: fus’cus. L. masc. adj. fuscus, brown, referring to the colour of the colonies

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CGMCC 1.12714; D40P; JCM 19740

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KF737330 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Jia L, Feng X, Zheng Z, Han L, Hou X, Lu Z, Lv J. Polymorphobacter fuscus sp. nov., isolated from permafrost soil, and emended description of the genus Polymorphobacter. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:3920-3925.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 65, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:527-529.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.03376 (N = 6).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 5 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Polymorphobacter Fukuda et al. 2014

Assigned by: Jia L, Feng X, Zheng Z, Han L, Hou X, Lu Z, Lv J. Polymorphobacter fuscus sp. nov., isolated from permafrost soil, and emended description of the genus Polymorphobacter. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:3920-3925.

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Record number: 793501