Name: Robertmurraya phoenicis Schultz et al. 2025

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: phoe’ni.cis. L. gen. masc. n. phoenicis, of phoenix, isolated from the sur face of the clean room where the Mars Phoenix spacecraft was assem bled

Gender: feminine

Type strain: 2P01SA; DSM 118031; MTCC 13642

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: CP154845 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Schultz J, Jamil T, Sengupta P, Sivabalan SKM, Rawat A, Patel N, Krishnamurthi S, Alam I, Singh NK, Raman K, et al. Genomic insights into novel extremotolerant bacteria isolated from the NASA Phoenix mission spacecraft assembly cleanrooms. Microbiome 2025; 13:117.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 226. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6910.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.15537 (N = 1).
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 0 times in PubMed until 2025-12-16.

Parent taxon: Robertmurraya Gupta et al. 2020

Assigned by: Schultz J, Jamil T, Sengupta P, Sivabalan SKM, Rawat A, Patel N, Krishnamurthi S, Alam I, Singh NK, Raman K, et al. Genomic insights into novel extremotolerant bacteria isolated from the NASA Phoenix mission spacecraft assembly cleanrooms. Microbiome 2025; 13:117.

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Record number: 66042