Name: Raineyella antarctica Pikuta et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ant.arc’ti.ca. L. fem. adj. antarctica, of the continent of Antarctica

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ATCC TSD-18; DSM 100494; JCM 30886; LZ-22

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KM406782 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Pikuta EV, Menes RJ, Bruce AM, Lyu Z, Patel NB, Liu Y, Hoover RB, Busse HJ, Lawson PA, Whitman WB. Raineyella antarctica gen. nov., sp. nov., a psychrotolerant, d-amino-acid-utilizing anaerobe isolated from two geographic locations of the Southern Hemisphere. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:5529-5536.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:525-528.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Raineyella Pikuta et al. 2016. Publication: Pikuta EV, Menes RJ, Bruce AM, Lyu Z, Patel NB, Liu Y, Hoover RB, Busse HJ, Lawson PA, Whitman WB. Raineyella antarctica gen. nov., sp. nov., a psychrotolerant, d-amino-acid-utilizing anaerobe isolated from two geographic locations of the Southern Hemisphere. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:5529-5536.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Nouioui et al. (2018). Publication: Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007.

Parent taxon: Raineyella Pikuta et al. 2016

Assigned by: Pikuta EV, Menes RJ, Bruce AM, Lyu Z, Patel NB, Liu Y, Hoover RB, Busse HJ, Lawson PA, Whitman WB. Raineyella antarctica gen. nov., sp. nov., a psychrotolerant, d-amino-acid-utilizing anaerobe isolated from two geographic locations of the Southern Hemisphere. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:5529-5536.

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Record number: 794888