Name: Seleniivibrio woodruffii Rauschenbach et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: wood.ruf’fi.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. woodruffii, of Woodruff, named in honour of Dr H. Boyd Woodruff, a Rutgers University alumnus, for his lifetime dedicated to the advancement of science and his contributions to soil and microbiology and the discovery of natural products important to human and animal health and agriculture

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-2290; DSM 24984; S4

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: JN107635 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Rauschenbach I, Posternak V, Cantarella P, McConnell J, Starovoytov V, Haggblom MM. Seleniivibrio woodruffii gen. nov., sp. nov., a selenate- and arsenate-respiring bacterium in the Deferribacteraceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3659-3665.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:6-7.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Seleniivibrio Rauschenbach et al. 2013. Publication: Rauschenbach I, Posternak V, Cantarella P, McConnell J, Starovoytov V, Haggblom MM. Seleniivibrio woodruffii gen. nov., sp. nov., a selenate- and arsenate-respiring bacterium in the Deferribacteraceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3659-3665.
  • 😷 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: Seleniivibrio Rauschenbach et al. 2013

Assigned by: Rauschenbach I, Posternak V, Cantarella P, McConnell J, Starovoytov V, Haggblom MM. Seleniivibrio woodruffii gen. nov., sp. nov., a selenate- and arsenate-respiring bacterium in the Deferribacteraceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3659-3665.

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Record number: 791152