Name: Robertmurraya yapensis Hitch et al. 2025

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ya.pen’sis. N.L. fem. adj. yapensis, pertaining to Yap trench, which is the geographical position where the first isolate of this species was obtained

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … ya-PEN-sis, feminine

Type strain: CLA AA-H227; DSM 113004; LMG 33018

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Effective publication: Hitch TCA, Masson JM, Pauvert C, Bosch J, Nuchtern S, Treichel NS, Baloh M, Razavi S, Afrizal A, Kousetzi N, et al. HiBC: a publicly available collection of bacterial strains isolated from the human gut. Nat Commun 2025; 16:4203. 🇩🇪

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 225. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6863.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 😡 This taxon name is a homonym of "Robertmurraya yapensis" (Xu et al. 2025) Dong et al. 2025.
  • 😡 This taxon name is a homonym of "Robertmurraya yapensis" Gupta 2023.
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.08975 (N = 1).
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2025-10-21.

Parent taxon: Robertmurraya Gupta et al. 2020

Assigned by: Hitch TCA, Masson JM, Pauvert C, Bosch J, Nuchtern S, Treichel NS, Baloh M, Razavi S, Afrizal A, Kousetzi N, et al. HiBC: a publicly available collection of bacterial strains isolated from the human gut. Nat Commun 2025; 16:4203. 🇩🇪

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Record number: 65271