Name: Shinella kummerowiae Lin et al. 2008

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: kum.me.ro’wi.ae. N.L. gen. fem. n. kummerowiae, of Kummerowia, a genus of leguminous plants, referring to the host from which the type strain was isolated

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CCBAU 25048; DSM 19334; DSM 21818; JCM 14778; LMG 24136

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EF070131 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Lin DX, Wang ET, Tang H, Han TX, He YR, Guan SH, Chen WX. Shinella kummerowiae sp. nov., a symbiotic bacterium isolated from root nodules of the herbal legume Kummerowia stipulacea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1409-1413.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 58, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1995-1996.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.08302 (N = 11).
  • 😷 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.

Parent taxon: Shinella An et al. 2006

Assigned by: Lin DX, Wang ET, Tang H, Han TX, He YR, Guan SH, Chen WX. Shinella kummerowiae sp. nov., a symbiotic bacterium isolated from root nodules of the herbal legume Kummerowia stipulacea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1409-1413.

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Record number: 786326