Name: Schlesneria paludicola Kulichevskaya et al. 2007

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: pa.lu.di’co.la. L. fem. n. palus (gen. paludis), a marsh, bog; L. masc./fem. n. suff. -cola, inhabitant, dweller; N.L. masc./fem. n. paludicola, a bog-dweller

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-1393; DSM 18645; MPL7; VKM B-2452

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AM162407 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kulichevskaya IS, Ivanova AO, Belova SE, Baulina OI, Bodelier PL, Rijpstra WI, Sinninghe Damste JS, Zavarzin GA, Dedysh SN. Schlesneria paludicola gen. nov., sp. nov., the first acidophilic member of the order Planctomycetales, from Sphagnum-dominated boreal wetlands. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2680-2687.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:313-314.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Schlesneria Kulichevskaya et al. 2007. Publication: Kulichevskaya IS, Ivanova AO, Belova SE, Baulina OI, Bodelier PL, Rijpstra WI, Sinninghe Damste JS, Zavarzin GA, Dedysh SN. Schlesneria paludicola gen. nov., sp. nov., the first acidophilic member of the order Planctomycetales, from Sphagnum-dominated boreal wetlands. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2680-2687.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by García-López et al. (2019). Publication: Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083.

Parent taxon: Schlesneria Kulichevskaya et al. 2007

Assigned by: Kulichevskaya IS, Ivanova AO, Belova SE, Baulina OI, Bodelier PL, Rijpstra WI, Sinninghe Damste JS, Zavarzin GA, Dedysh SN. Schlesneria paludicola gen. nov., sp. nov., the first acidophilic member of the order Planctomycetales, from Sphagnum-dominated boreal wetlands. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2680-2687.

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Record number: 786941