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

Pronunciation, gender: ant-ARK-ti-ka, 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. — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
  • 🧍 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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