Name: Rhodoplanes piscinae Chakravarthy et al. 2012

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: pi.sci’nae. L. gen. fem. n. piscinae, of a fish pond, from where the type strain was isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 19946; JA266; JCM 14934; KCTC 5627

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16S rRNA gene: LC178579 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Chakravarthy SK, Ramaprasad EV, Shobha E, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV. Rhodoplanes piscinae sp. nov. isolated from pond water. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2828-2834.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 62, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:799-800.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Rhodoplanes serenus Okamura et al. 2009

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Rhodoplanes serenus Okamura et al. 2009	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ⏲ According to Volpiano et al. (2021), this species is a later heterotypic synonym of Rhodoplanes serenus Okamura et al. 2009. Publication: Volpiano CG, Sant'Anna FH, Ambrosini A, de Sao Jose JFB, Beneduzi A, Whitman WB, de Souza EM, Lisboa BB, Vargas LK, Passaglia LMP. Genomic Metrics Applied to Rhizobiales (Hyphomicrobiales): Species Reclassification, Identification of Unauthentic Genomes and False Type Strains. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:614957.
  • 🏢 Synonymy of this taxon was mentioned in an IJSEM list. Publication: Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 35. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5164.
  • ❗ Rhodoplanes piscinae 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 Rhodoplanes.
  • 😷 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: Rhodoplanes Hiraishi and Ueda 1994

Assigned by: Chakravarthy SK, Ramaprasad EV, Shobha E, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV. Rhodoplanes piscinae sp. nov. isolated from pond water. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2828-2834.

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Record number: 790343