Name: Silvimonas terrae Yang et al. 2005

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ter’rae. L. gen. fem. n. terrae, of the earth

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 18233; JCM 21671; KCTC 12358; KM-45; NBRC 100961

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB194302 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Yang HC, Im WT, An DS, Park WS, Kim IS, Lee ST. Silvimonas terrae gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel chitin-degrading facultative anaerobe belonging to the 'Betaproteobacteria'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:2329-2332.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 55, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:319-321.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Silvimonas Yang et al. 2005. Publication: Yang HC, Im WT, An DS, Park WS, Kim IS, Lee ST. Silvimonas terrae gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel chitin-degrading facultative anaerobe belonging to the 'Betaproteobacteria'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:2329-2332.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 7 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Silvimonas Yang et al. 2005

Assigned by: Yang HC, Im WT, An DS, Park WS, Kim IS, Lee ST. Silvimonas terrae gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel chitin-degrading facultative anaerobe belonging to the 'Betaproteobacteria'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:2329-2332.

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Record number: 780925