Name: Rhodobium gokarnense Srinivas et al. 2007

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: go.karn.en’se. N.L. neut. adj. gokarnense, pertaining to Gokarna, the place from which the type strain was isolated

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC BAA-1275; DSM 17935; JA173; JCM 13532

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AM180706 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Srinivas TN, Kumar PA, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV, Imhoff JF. Rhodobium gokarnense sp. nov., a novel phototrophic alphaproteobacterium from a saltern. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:932-935.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1675-1676.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Urdiain et al. 2008 Urdiain M, Lopez-Lopez A, Gonzalo C, Busse HJ, Langer S, Kampfer P, Rossello-Mora R. Reclassification of Rhodobium marinum and Rhodobium pfennigii as Afifella marina gen. nov. comb. nov. and Afifella pfennigii comb. nov., a new genus of photoheterotrophic Alphaproteobacteria and emended descriptions of Rhodobium, Rhodobium orientis and Rhodobium gokarnense. Syst Appl Microbiol 2008; 31:339-351. Euzeby JP. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 9. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:5-6.
    Notes:
    • 🧍 According to Urdiain et al. [1], the type strain JCM 13532 was not delivered. However, according to Dr. — 🧍 M. Sakamoto [2], Rhodobium gokarnense JCM 13532 is now available. — Sakamoto M. Personal communication, 2009-01-30.

• Notes:
  • 😩 Deposit incorrectly indicated in some sources as representing the type strain of this taxon: ATCC BAA-1215.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 In the paper by Srinivas et al. 2007, the type strain ATCC BAA-1275 is erroneously cited as ATCC BAA-1215, see ATCC Web site. Publication: Euzeby JP. List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:590-592.

Parent taxon: Rhodobium Hiraishi et al. 1995

Assigned by: Srinivas TN, Kumar PA, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV, Imhoff JF. Rhodobium gokarnense sp. nov., a novel phototrophic alphaproteobacterium from a saltern. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:932-935.

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