Name: Ruegeria meteori (Rüger and Höfle 1992) Hördt et al. 2020

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Agrobacterium meteori Rüger and Höfle 1992

Etymology: me.te’or.i. N.L. gen. neut. n. meteori, of meteor, after the German research vessel Meteor

Gender: feminine

Type strain: 1513; ATCC 700001; DSM 5824; IAM 14464

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: D88527 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: 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.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 194. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4043-4049.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Agrobacterium meteori Rüger and Höfle 1992	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ⏲ According to Hoerdt et al. (2020), this species is not a later heterotypic synonym of Agrobacterium atlanticum Rüger and Höfle 1992. Publication: 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.
  • ⏲ According to Hoerdt et al. (2020), this species is not a later heterotypic synonym of Ruegeria atlantica (Rüger and Höfle 1992) Uchino et al. 1999. Publication: 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.
  • ⏲ According to Uchino et al. (1998), this species is a later heterotypic synonym of Agrobacterium atlanticum Rüger and Höfle 1992. Publication: Uchino Y, Hirata A, Yokota A, Sugiyama J. Reclassification of marine Agrobacterium species: Proposals of Stappia stellulata gen. nov., comb. nov., Stappia aggregata sp. nov., nom. rev., Ruegeria atlantica gen. nov., comb. nov., Ruegeria gelatinovora comb. nov., Ruegeria algicola comb. nov., and Ahrensia kieliense gen. nov., sp. nov., nom. rev. J Gen Appl Microbiol 1998; 44:201-210.
  • ⏲ According to Uchino et al. (1998), this species is a later heterotypic synonym of Ruegeria atlantica (Rüger and Höfle 1992) Uchino et al. 1999. Publication: Uchino Y, Hirata A, Yokota A, Sugiyama J. Reclassification of marine Agrobacterium species: Proposals of Stappia stellulata gen. nov., comb. nov., Stappia aggregata sp. nov., nom. rev., Ruegeria atlantica gen. nov., comb. nov., Ruegeria gelatinovora comb. nov., Ruegeria algicola comb. nov., and Ahrensia kieliense gen. nov., sp. nov., nom. rev. J Gen Appl Microbiol 1998; 44:201-210.
  • 🏢 Synonymy of this taxon was mentioned in an IJSEM list. Publication: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 194. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4043-4049.
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.18631 (N = 84).
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 0 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Ruegeria Uchino et al. 1999

Assigned by: 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.

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