Name: Rubrobacter aplysinae Kämpfer et al. 2014

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: a.ply’si.nae. N.L. gen. fem. n. aplysinae, of/from Aplysina the zoological name of a genus of sponge, referring to the isolation of the type strain from the sponge Aplysina aerophoba

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CECT 8425; DSM 27440; RV 113

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: GU318365 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kampfer P, Glaeser SP, Busse HJ, Abdelmohsen UR, Hentschel U. Rubrobacter aplysinae sp. nov., isolated from the marine sponge Aplysina aerophoba. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:705-709.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 64, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:1827-1829.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Nouioui et al. 2018 Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 29. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:13-32.

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Rubrobacter Suzuki et al. 1989

Assigned by: Kampfer P, Glaeser SP, Busse HJ, Abdelmohsen UR, Hentschel U. Rubrobacter aplysinae sp. nov., isolated from the marine sponge Aplysina aerophoba. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:705-709.

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Record number: 791658