Name: Rhodonellum psychrophilum Schmidt et al. 2006

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: psy.chro.phi’lum. Gr. masc. adj. psychros, cold; N.L. adj. philus -a -um, friend, loving; from Gr. adj. philos -ê -on, loving; N.L. neut. adj. psychrophilum, cold-loving

Gender: neuter

Type strain: DSM 17998; GCM71; LMG 23454

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: DQ112660 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Schmidt M, Prieme A, Stougaard P. Rhodonellum psychrophilum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel psychrophilic and alkaliphilic bacterium of the phylum Bacteroidetes isolated from Greenland. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:2887-2892.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 56, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:435-436.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Hahnke et al. 2016 Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:2003. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 26. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2081-2086.
    Notes:
    • 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Rhodonellum Schmidt et al. 2006. Publication: Schmidt M, Prieme A, Stougaard P. Rhodonellum psychrophilum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel psychrophilic and alkaliphilic bacterium of the phylum Bacteroidetes isolated from Greenland. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:2887-2892.
  • 😷 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.

Parent taxon: Rhodonellum Schmidt et al. 2006

Assigned by: Schmidt M, Prieme A, Stougaard P. Rhodonellum psychrophilum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel psychrophilic and alkaliphilic bacterium of the phylum Bacteroidetes isolated from Greenland. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:2887-2892.

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