Species Robertmurraya yapensis

Name: Robertmurraya yapensis Hitch et al. 2025

Category, proposed as: species, 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: ro-bert-mur-RAY-a ya-PEN-sis, feminine

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

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

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: synonym

Correct name: Bacillus yapensis Xu et al. 2025

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Bacillus yapensis Xu et al. 2025	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Robertmurraya yapensis" (Xu et al. 2025) Dong et al. 2025	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Robertmurraya yapensis" Gupta 2023	heterotypic synonym, not validly published

• 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.
  • ❗ Robertmurraya yapensis 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 Robertmurraya.
  • 🧬 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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