Name: Pusillimonas noertemannii Stolz et al. 2005

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: noer.te.mann’i.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. noertemannii, of Nörtemann, in honour of Bernd Nörtemann, who isolated this and various other bacterial strains that had extraordinary degradative abilities

Gender: feminine

Type strain: BN9; DSM 10065; NCIMB 14020

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AY695828 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Stolz A, Burger S, Kuhm A, Kampfer P, Busse HJ. Pusillimonas noertemannii gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Alcaligenaceae that degrades substituted salicylates. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1077-1081.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 55, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1747-1749.

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:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Pusillimonas Stolz et al. 2005. Publication: Stolz A, Burger S, Kuhm A, Kampfer P, Busse HJ. Pusillimonas noertemannii gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Alcaligenaceae that degrades substituted salicylates. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1077-1081.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 13 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Pusillimonas Stolz et al. 2005

Assigned by: Stolz A, Burger S, Kuhm A, Kampfer P, Busse HJ. Pusillimonas noertemannii gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Alcaligenaceae that degrades substituted salicylates. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1077-1081.

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