Name: Pseudarcicella hirudinis Kämpfer et al. 2012

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: hi.ru’di.nis. L. fem. n. hirudo (gen. hirudinis), a leech; L. gen. fem. n. hirudinis, of a leech

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CCM 7988; DSM 25647; E92; LMG 26720

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: MT760195 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kampfer P, Busse HJ, Longaric I, Rossello-Mora R, Galatis H, Lodders N. Pseudarcicella hirudinis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the skin of the medical leech Hirudo medicinalis. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2247-2251.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 62, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2813-2814.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • García-López et al. 2019 Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Pseudarcicella Kämpfer et al. 2012. Publication: Kampfer P, Busse HJ, Longaric I, Rossello-Mora R, Galatis H, Lodders N. Pseudarcicella hirudinis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the skin of the medical leech Hirudo medicinalis. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2247-2251.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Pseudarcicella Kämpfer et al. 2012

Assigned by: Kampfer P, Busse HJ, Longaric I, Rossello-Mora R, Galatis H, Lodders N. Pseudarcicella hirudinis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the skin of the medical leech Hirudo medicinalis. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2247-2251.

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Record number: 790117