Name: Roseivivax lentus Park et al. 2010

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: len’tus. L. masc. adj. lentus, slow, delayed, referring to the slow growth of the micro-organism

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CCUG 57755; DSM 29430; KCTC 22708; S5-5

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KT989849 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Park S, Kang SJ, Oh TK, Yoon JH. Roseivivax lentus sp. nov., isolated from a tidal flat sediment, and emended description of the genus Roseivivax Suzuki et al. 1999. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1113-1117.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1715-1716.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Hördt et al. 2020 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. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 4 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Roseivivax Suzuki et al. 1999

Assigned by: Park S, Kang SJ, Oh TK, Yoon JH. Roseivivax lentus sp. nov., isolated from a tidal flat sediment, and emended description of the genus Roseivivax Suzuki et al. 1999. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1113-1117.

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Record number: 788531