Name: Sinomonas mesophila Prabhu et al. 2015

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: me.so’phi.la. N.L. fem. adj. mesophila, middle temperature loving

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 28729; JCM 30094; MPKL 26; NCIM 5552

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KJ809567 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Prabhu DM, Quadri SR, Cheng J, Liu L, Chen W, Yang Y, Hozzein WN, Lingappa K, Li WJ. Sinomonas mesophila sp. nov., isolated from ancient fort soil. J Antibiot (Tokyo) 2015; 68:318-321.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 165. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:2777-2783.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Nouioui et al. 2018 Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 29. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:13-32.

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.10383 (N = 12).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 5 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Sinomonas Zhou et al. 2009

Assigned by: Prabhu DM, Quadri SR, Cheng J, Liu L, Chen W, Yang Y, Hozzein WN, Lingappa K, Li WJ. Sinomonas mesophila sp. nov., isolated from ancient fort soil. J Antibiot (Tokyo) 2015; 68:318-321.

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