Name: Rhodococcoides navarretei (Carrasco et al. 2024) Val-Calvo et al. 2025

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Rhodococcus navarretei Carrasco et al. 2024

Etymology: na.var.re’te.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. navarretei, named in honour of Group Commander of the Chilean Air Force Eduardo Navarrete Pizarro, chief of the Union Glacier Station during the scientific expedition that collected the soil samples from which the bacterium was isolated, who died in the 2019 Chilean military plane crash over the Drake Passage

Pronunciation, gender: na-war-RE-te-i, neuter

Type strain: EXRC-4A-4; LMG 33621; RGM 3539

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: OR789622 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Val-Calvo J, Scortti M, Goker M, Vazquez-Boland JA. Leveraging the subgenus category to address monophyletic genus over-splitting: illustration with recently proposed Mycobacteriales genera. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6917.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym (and not recommended for medical use)

Correct name: Rhodococcus navarretei Carrasco et al. 2024

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Rhodococcus navarretei Carrasco et al. 2024	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ❗ Rhodococcoides navarretei is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Rhodococcoides.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 0 times in PubMed until 2025-10-07.
  • 🙅 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as a synonym of the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded risk group of the genus.

Parent taxon: Rhodococcoides Val-Calvo and Vázquez-Boland 2024

Assigned by: Val-Calvo J, Scortti M, Goker M, Vazquez-Boland JA. Leveraging the subgenus category to address monophyletic genus over-splitting: illustration with recently proposed Mycobacteriales genera. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6917.

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Record number: 67575