Name: Ruficoccus amylovorans Lin et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: a.my.lo.vo’rans. Gr. neut. n. amylon, starch; L. pres. part. vorans, devouring, digesting; N.L. part. adj. amylovorans, starch-devouring

Gender: masculine

Type strain: BCRC 80918; CC-MHH0563; JCM 31066

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16S rRNA gene: KT751307 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Lin SY, Hameed A, Liu YC, Hsu YH, Hung MH, Lai WA, Young CC. Ruficoccus amylovorans gen. nov., sp. nov., an amylolytic and nitrate-reducing diazotroph of the family Puniceicoccaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:956-962.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2079-2080.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Ruficoccus Lin et al. 2017. Publication: Lin SY, Hameed A, Liu YC, Hsu YH, Hung MH, Lai WA, Young CC. Ruficoccus amylovorans gen. nov., sp. nov., an amylolytic and nitrate-reducing diazotroph of the family Puniceicoccaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:956-962.
  • 😢 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. Contrasting the term "chemotaxonomic" with "phenotypic" is not recommended. 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 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: Ruficoccus Lin et al. 2017

Assigned by: Lin SY, Hameed A, Liu YC, Hsu YH, Hung MH, Lai WA, Young CC. Ruficoccus amylovorans gen. nov., sp. nov., an amylolytic and nitrate-reducing diazotroph of the family Puniceicoccaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:956-962.

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