Name: Rhodosalinus sediminis Guo et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: se.di’mi.nis. L. gen. neut. n. sediminis, of sediment

Gender: masculine

Type strain: KCTC 52478; MCCC 1H00170; WDN1C137

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KX815123 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Guo LY, Ling SK, Li CM, Chen GJ, Du ZJ. Rhodosalinus sediminis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from marine saltern. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:5108-5113.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:695-697.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Rhodosalinus Guo et al. 2017. Publication: Guo LY, Ling SK, Li CM, Chen GJ, Du ZJ. Rhodosalinus sediminis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from marine saltern. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:5108-5113.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Hördt et al. (2020). Publication: Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468.

Parent taxon: Rhodosalinus Guo et al. 2017

Assigned by: Guo LY, Ling SK, Li CM, Chen GJ, Du ZJ. Rhodosalinus sediminis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from marine saltern. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:5108-5113.

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