Name: Prauserella alba Li et al. 2003

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: al’ba. L. fem. adj. alba, white, referring to the white aerial mycelium

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CCTCC AA 1016; DSM 44590; JCM 13022; YIM 90005

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AF435077 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Li WJ, Xu P, Tang SK, Xu LH, Kroppenstedt RM, Stackebrandt E, Jiang CL. Prauserella halophila sp. nov. and Prauserella alba sp. nov., moderately halophilic actinomycetes from saline soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1545-1549.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 53, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:3-6.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Nouioui et al. 2018 Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 29. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:13-32.

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.14329 (N = 23).
  • 😷 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 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 In the paper by Li et al., the strain CCTCC AA 001016 is cited as CCTCC AA001016. Publication: Euzeby JP. List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:590-592.
  • 🧍 See also: Publication: Hamedi J, Mohammadipanah F, Ventosa A. Systematic and biotechnological aspects of halophilic and halotolerant actinomycetes. Extremophiles 2013; 17:1-13.

Parent taxon: Prauserella Kim and Goodfellow 1999

Assigned by: Li WJ, Xu P, Tang SK, Xu LH, Kroppenstedt RM, Stackebrandt E, Jiang CL. Prauserella halophila sp. nov. and Prauserella alba sp. nov., moderately halophilic actinomycetes from saline soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1545-1549.

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