Name: Roseospira visakhapatnamensis Kalyan Chakravarthy et al. 2007

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: vi.sa’kha.pat.nam.en.sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. visakhapatnamensis, pertaining to Visakhapatnam, a port city in Andhra Pradesh, India, from where the type strain was isolated

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-1365; DSM 19947; JA131; JCM 14190

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AM282560 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kalyan Chakravarthy S, Srinivas TN, Anil Kumar P, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV. Roseospira visakhapatnamensis sp. nov. and Roseospira goensis sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2453-2457.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:313-314.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Rhodospira visakhapatnamensis" (Kalyan Chakravarthy et al. 2007) Koziaeva et al. 2023	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Roseospira Imhoff et al. 1998

Assigned by: Kalyan Chakravarthy S, Srinivas TN, Anil Kumar P, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV. Roseospira visakhapatnamensis sp. nov. and Roseospira goensis sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2453-2457.

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Record number: 786907