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Species Shewanella woodyi
Name: Shewanella woodyi Makemson et al. 1997
Etymology: woo’dy.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. woodyi, of Woody, in honor of the American biologist J. Woodland Hastings
Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … WOO-dy-i, feminine
Type strain: ATCC 51908; CIP 105547; DSM 12036; MS32
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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at
16S rRNA gene:
AF003549
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FASTA
Valid publication:
Makemson JC, Fulayfil NR, Landry W, Van Ert LM, Wimpee CF, Widder EA, Case JF. Shewanella woodyi sp. nov., an exclusively respiratory luminous bacterium isolated from the Alboran Sea. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:1034-1039. 
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IJSEM list:
Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 47, part 4 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:329-330.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)
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Emendations:
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Thorell et al. 2019
Thorell K, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Sjoling A, Martin-Rodriguez AJ. Whole-Genome Sequencing Redefines Shewanella Taxonomy. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:1861. 🇸🇪
Notes:- 🧍 As of 2020-09-22 this emendation was not yet included in an IJSEM List of Changes in Taxonomic Opinion.
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Cao et al. 2021
Cao WR, Li X, Sun YY, Jiang MY, Xu XD, Li YJ. Shewanella nanhaiensis sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from sediment of South China Sea, and emended descriptions of Shewanella woodyi, Shewanella hanedai and Shewanella canadensis. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:5152. 🇨🇳
Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 71, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5273.
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Thorell et al. 2019
Thorell K, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Sjoling A, Martin-Rodriguez AJ. Whole-Genome Sequencing Redefines Shewanella Taxonomy. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:1861.
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Notes:
- 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
- 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.03747 (N = 1).
- 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1". — The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
- 🎓 Name mentioned 24 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
- 🙆 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded risk group of the genus.
Parent taxon: Shewanella MacDonell and Colwell 1986
Assigned by:
Makemson JC, Fulayfil NR, Landry W, Van Ert LM, Wimpee CF, Widder EA, Case JF. Shewanella woodyi sp. nov., an exclusively respiratory luminous bacterium isolated from the Alboran Sea. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:1034-1039. 🇺🇸
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Record number: 780912
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