Name: Pusillimonas caeni Jin et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: cae’ni. L. gen. neut. n. caeni, of sludge

Gender: feminine

Type strain: EBR-8-1; JCM 30463; KCTC 42353

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KF056995 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Jin L, Ko SR, Cui Y, Lee CS, Oh HM, Ahn CY, Lee HG. Pusillimonas caeni sp. nov., isolated from a sludge sample of a biofilm reactor. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2017; 110:125-132.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 174. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:529-531.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Li et al. 2020 Li J, Qi M, Lai Q, Dong C, Liu X, Wang G, Shao Z. Pusillimonas maritima sp. nov., isolated from surface seawater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3483-3490. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 70, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4421-4424.

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.12620 (N = 16).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 5 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Pusillimonas Stolz et al. 2005

Assigned by: Jin L, Ko SR, Cui Y, Lee CS, Oh HM, Ahn CY, Lee HG. Pusillimonas caeni sp. nov., isolated from a sludge sample of a biofilm reactor. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2017; 110:125-132.

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