Name: Psychromonas boydii Auman et al. 2010

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: boy’di.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. boydii, of Boyd, in honour of William L. Boyd, whose career was dedicated to researching psychrophilic bacteria. This epithet was also chosen to honour Josephine W. Boyd

Gender: feminine

Type strain: 174; CCM 7498; DSM 17665

See detailed strain information at

16S rRNA gene: FJ822615 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Auman AJ, Breezee JL, Gosink JJ, Schumann P, Barnes CR, Kampfer P, Staley JT. Psychromonas boydii sp. nov., a gas-vacuolate, psychrophilic bacterium isolated from an Arctic sea-ice core. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:84-92.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:719-720.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 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: Psychromonas Mountfort et al. 1998

Assigned by: Auman AJ, Breezee JL, Gosink JJ, Schumann P, Barnes CR, Kampfer P, Staley JT. Psychromonas boydii sp. nov., a gas-vacuolate, psychrophilic bacterium isolated from an Arctic sea-ice core. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:84-92.

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Record number: 788316