Name: Psychromicrobium lacuslunae Kiran et al. 2018

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: la.cus.lu’nae. L. gen. masc. n. lacus, lake; L. fem. n. luna, the moon; N.L. gen. masc. n. lacuslunae, of Moon Lake (Chandra Tal, India) from where the strain was isolated

Gender: neuter

Type strain: IHBB 11108; JCM 31143; KACC 19070; MCC 2780; MTCC 12460

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KU921532 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kiran S, Schumann P, Busse HJ, Sproer C, Rana A, Pal M, Korpole S, Tewari R, Gulati A. Psychromicrobium lacuslunae sp. nov., isolated from a high altitude lake. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:3416-3423.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 68, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:297-298.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.14808 (N = 18).
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Psychromicrobium Schumann et al. 2017

Assigned by: Kiran S, Schumann P, Busse HJ, Sproer C, Rana A, Pal M, Korpole S, Tewari R, Gulati A. Psychromicrobium lacuslunae sp. nov., isolated from a high altitude lake. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:3416-3423.

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Record number: 797936