Name: Rivibacter subsaxonicus (Stackebrandt et al. 2008) Stackebrandt et al. 2009

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Methylibium subsaxonicum Stackebrandt et al. 2008

Etymology: sub.sa.xo’ni.cus. L. prep. sub, low, below, under; M.L. adj. saxonicus -a -um, pertaining to Saxony; N.L. masc. adj. subsaxonicus, pertaining to Lower Saxony, a state of Germany

Gender: masculine

Type strain: BF49; CIP 109700; DSM 19570

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AM774413 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Stackebrandt E, Verbarg S, Fruhling A, Busse HJ, Tindall BJ. Dissection of the genus Methylibium: reclassification of Methylibium fulvum as Rhizobacter fulvus comb. nov., Methylibium aquaticum as Piscinibacter aquaticus gen. nov., comb. nov. and Methylibium subsaxonicum as Rivibacter subsaxonicus gen. nov., comb. nov. and emended descriptions of the genera Rhizobacter and Methylibium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2552-2560.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:3-4.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Methylibium subsaxonicum Stackebrandt et al. 2008	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Rivibacter Stackebrandt et al. 2009. Publication: Stackebrandt E, Verbarg S, Fruhling A, Busse HJ, Tindall BJ. Dissection of the genus Methylibium: reclassification of Methylibium fulvum as Rhizobacter fulvus comb. nov., Methylibium aquaticum as Piscinibacter aquaticus gen. nov., comb. nov. and Methylibium subsaxonicum as Rivibacter subsaxonicus gen. nov., comb. nov. and emended descriptions of the genera Rhizobacter and Methylibium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2552-2560.
  • 😷 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.

Parent taxon: Rivibacter Stackebrandt et al. 2009

Assigned by: Stackebrandt E, Verbarg S, Fruhling A, Busse HJ, Tindall BJ. Dissection of the genus Methylibium: reclassification of Methylibium fulvum as Rhizobacter fulvus comb. nov., Methylibium aquaticum as Piscinibacter aquaticus gen. nov., comb. nov. and Methylibium subsaxonicum as Rivibacter subsaxonicus gen. nov., comb. nov. and emended descriptions of the genera Rhizobacter and Methylibium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2552-2560.

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