Name: Sanguibacter keddieii Fernández-Garayzábal et al. 1995

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ked.die’i.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. keddieii, of Keddie, named in honor of R.M. Keddie, a British bacteriologist

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 51767; CCUG 36690; CECT 4540; CIP 106323; DSM 10542; IFO 16158; JCM 11429; NBRC 16158; NCFB 3025; NCIMB 703025; ST-74

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: X79450 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Fernandez-Garayzabal JF, Dominguez L, Pascual C, Jones D, Collins MD. Phenotypic and phylogenetic characterization of some unknown coryneform bacteria isolated from bovine blood and milk: description of Sanguibacter gen.nov. Lett Appl Microbiol 1995; 20:69-75.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 54. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1995; 45:619-620.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Pikuta et al. 2017 Pikuta EV, Lyu Z, Williams MD, Patel NB, Liu Y, Hoover RB, Busse HJ, Lawson PA, Whitman WB. Sanguibacter gelidistatuariae sp. nov., a novel psychrotolerant anaerobe from an ice sculpture in Antarctica, and emendation of descriptions of the family Sanguibacteraceae, the genus Sanguibacter and species S. antarcticus, S. inulinus, S. kedieii, S. marinus, S. soli and S. suarezii. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1442-1450. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2495-2498.
  • 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:
  • Nomenclatural type of the genus Sanguibacter Fernández-Garayzábal et al. 1995. Publication: Fernandez-Garayzabal JF, Dominguez L, Pascual C, Jones D, Collins MD. Phenotypic and phylogenetic characterization of some unknown coryneform bacteria isolated from bovine blood and milk: description of Sanguibacter gen.nov. Lett Appl Microbiol 1995; 20:69-75.
  • The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project. Publication: Ivanova N, Sikorski J, Sims D, Brettin T, Detter JC, Han C, Lapidus A, Copeland A, Glavina Del Rio T, Nolan M, et al. Complete genome sequence of Sanguibacter keddieii type strain (ST-74). Stand Genomic Sci 2009; 1:110-118.
  • The full TRBA 466 classification is: risk group = 1, note = "t+".

Parent taxon: Sanguibacter Fernández-Garayzábal et al. 1995

Assigned by: Fernandez-Garayzabal JF, Dominguez L, Pascual C, Jones D, Collins MD. Phenotypic and phylogenetic characterization of some unknown coryneform bacteria isolated from bovine blood and milk: description of Sanguibacter gen.nov. Lett Appl Microbiol 1995; 20:69-75.

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