Name: Rufibacter psychrotolerans Liu et al. 2025

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: psy.chro.to’le.rans. Gr. masc. adj. psychros, cold; L. pres. part. tolerans, tolerating; N.L. masc. part. adj. psychrotolerans, cold-tolerating

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … psy-k^hro-TO-le-rans, masculine

Type strain: CGMCC 1.18621; KCTC 82275; MCCC 1K04970; SYSU D00308

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: MT527565 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Liu J, Li S, She TT, Huang J, Lian WH, Mo YJ, Zhang DY, Dong L, Li WJ. Rufibacter psychrotolerans sp. nov., a Cold-Tolerating Novel Species Isolated from Desert Soil. Curr Microbiol 2024; 81:313. 🇨🇳

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: correct name

• Notes:
  • 😢 The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. Using the term "phylogenetic data" (or equivalent) for sequence data is not advocated. Whether taxa can have "members" is debatable. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details. Publication: Göker M. What can genome analysis offer for bacteria? In: Bridge P, Smith D, Stackebrandt E (eds), Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi, CAB International, Wallingford, 2021, p. 255-281. 🇬🇧
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is -0.04671 (N = 6).
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2025-10-21.

Parent taxon: Rufibacter Abaydulla et al. 2014

Assigned by: Liu J, Li S, She TT, Huang J, Lian WH, Mo YJ, Zhang DY, Dong L, Li WJ. Rufibacter psychrotolerans sp. nov., a Cold-Tolerating Novel Species Isolated from Desert Soil. Curr Microbiol 2024; 81:313. 🇨🇳

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Record number: 67938