Name: Pseudorhodobacter psychrotolerans Lee et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: psy.chro.to’ler.ans. Gr. masc. adj. psychros, cold; L. pres. part. tolerans, tolerating; N.L. part. adj. psychrotolerans, cold-tolerating

Gender: masculine

Type strain: JCM 30764; KCTC 42640; PAMC 27389

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KT163920 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Lee YM, Yang JY, Baek K, Han SJ, Shin SC, Hwang CY, Hong SG, Lee HK. Pseudorhodobacter psychrotolerans sp. nov., a psychrotolerant bacterium isolated from terrestrial soil, and emended description of the genus Pseudorhodobacter. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1068-1073.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1916-1919.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Cypionkella psychrotolerans (Lee et al. 2016) Hördt et al. 2020

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Cypionkella psychrotolerans (Lee et al. 2016) Hördt et al. 2020	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ❗ Pseudorhodobacter psychrotolerans is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Pseudorhodobacter.
  • 😷 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 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Hördt et al. (2020). Publication: Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468.

Parent taxon: Pseudorhodobacter Uchino et al. 2003

Assigned by: Lee YM, Yang JY, Baek K, Han SJ, Shin SC, Hwang CY, Hong SG, Lee HK. Pseudorhodobacter psychrotolerans sp. nov., a psychrotolerant bacterium isolated from terrestrial soil, and emended description of the genus Pseudorhodobacter. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1068-1073.

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Record number: 793842