Name: Prolixibacter bellariivorans Holmes et al. 2007

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: bell.ar.ii’vorans. L. pl. n. bellaria, sweets, dessert; L. pres. part. vorans, devouring; from L. inf. v. vorare, to eat; N.L. part. adj. bellariivorans, sweet-devouring, consuming sweet things

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-1284; F2; JCM 13498

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB541983 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Holmes DE, Nevin KP, Woodard TL, Peacock AD, Lovley DR. Prolixibacter bellariivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a sugar-fermenting, psychrotolerant anaerobe of the phylum Bacteroidetes, isolated from a marine-sediment fuel cell. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:701-707.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1374-1375.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Iino et al. 2015 Iino T, Sakamoto M, Ohkuma M. Prolixibacter denitrificans sp. nov., an iron-corroding, facultatively aerobic, nitrate-reducing bacterium isolated from crude oil, and emended descriptions of the genus Prolixibacter and Prolixibacter bellariivorans. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:2865-2869. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 65, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:4294-4296.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Prolixibacter Holmes et al. 2007. Publication: Holmes DE, Nevin KP, Woodard TL, Peacock AD, Lovley DR. Prolixibacter bellariivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a sugar-fermenting, psychrotolerant anaerobe of the phylum Bacteroidetes, isolated from a marine-sediment fuel cell. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:701-707.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 6 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project. Publication: Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:2003.

Parent taxon: Prolixibacter Holmes et al. 2007

Assigned by: Holmes DE, Nevin KP, Woodard TL, Peacock AD, Lovley DR. Prolixibacter bellariivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a sugar-fermenting, psychrotolerant anaerobe of the phylum Bacteroidetes, isolated from a marine-sediment fuel cell. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:701-707.

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