Name: Salinimicrobium xinjiangense Lim et al. 2008

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: xin.ji.ang.en’se. N.L. neut. adj. xinjiangense, of Xinjiang, a region of China

Gender: neuter

Type strain: BH206; DSM 19287; KCTC 12883

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EF520007 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Lim JM, Jeon CO, Lee SS, Park DJ, Xu LH, Jiang CL, Kim CJ. Reclassification of Salegentibacter catena Ying et al. 2007 as Salinimicrobium catena gen. nov., comb. nov. and description of Salinimicrobium xinjiangense sp. nov., a halophilic bacterium isolated from Xinjiang province in China. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:438-442.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 58, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1058-1059.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.07804 (N = 106).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 5 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project. Publication: Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:2003.

Parent taxon: Salinimicrobium Lim et al. 2008

Assigned by: Lim JM, Jeon CO, Lee SS, Park DJ, Xu LH, Jiang CL, Kim CJ. Reclassification of Salegentibacter catena Ying et al. 2007 as Salinimicrobium catena gen. nov., comb. nov. and description of Salinimicrobium xinjiangense sp. nov., a halophilic bacterium isolated from Xinjiang province in China. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:438-442.

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