Name: Profundibacterium mesophilum Lai et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: me.so’phi.lum. Gr. masc. adj. mesos, medium; N.L. adj. philus -a -um, friend, loving; from Gr. masc. adj. philos, on; N.L. neut. adj. mesophilum, medium-temperature-loving, mesophilic

Gender: neuter

Type strain: DSM 29429; JCM 17872; KAUST100406-0324; NRRL B-59665

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: JF776971 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Lai PY, Miao L, Lee OO, Liu LL, Zhou XJ, Xu Y, Al-Suwailem A, Qian PY. Profundibacterium mesophilum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member in the family Rhodobacteraceae isolated from deep-sea sediment in the Red Sea, Saudi Arabia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1007-1012.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1939-1941.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Profundibacterium mesophila" Lai 2012	homotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling
    "Profundibacterium mesophilum" corrig. Lai 2012	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Profundibacterium Lai et al. 2013. Publication: Lai PY, Miao L, Lee OO, Liu LL, Zhou XJ, Xu Y, Al-Suwailem A, Qian PY. Profundibacterium mesophilum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member in the family Rhodobacteraceae isolated from deep-sea sediment in the Red Sea, Saudi Arabia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1007-1012.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Profundibacterium Lai et al. 2013

Assigned by: Lai PY, Miao L, Lee OO, Liu LL, Zhou XJ, Xu Y, Al-Suwailem A, Qian PY. Profundibacterium mesophilum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member in the family Rhodobacteraceae isolated from deep-sea sediment in the Red Sea, Saudi Arabia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1007-1012.

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