Name: Smaragdicoccus niigatensis Adachi et al. 2007

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ni.i.ga.ten’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. niigatensis, pertaining to the Niigata Prefecture of Japan, the source of the soil from which the organism was isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 44881; Hou_blue; JCM 14666; MBIC 6267; NBRC 103563

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB243007 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Adachi K, Katsuta A, Matsuda S, Peng X, Misawa N, Shizuri Y, Kroppenstedt RM, Yokota A, Kasai H. Smaragdicoccus niigatensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member of the suborder Corynebacterineae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:297-301.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:898-899.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Smaragdicoccus Adachi et al. 2007. Publication: Adachi K, Katsuta A, Matsuda S, Peng X, Misawa N, Shizuri Y, Kroppenstedt RM, Yokota A, Kasai H. Smaragdicoccus niigatensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member of the suborder Corynebacterineae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:297-301.
  • 😷 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.
  • 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project. Publication: 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.

Parent taxon: Smaragdicoccus Adachi et al. 2007

Assigned by: Adachi K, Katsuta A, Matsuda S, Peng X, Misawa N, Shizuri Y, Kroppenstedt RM, Yokota A, Kasai H. Smaragdicoccus niigatensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member of the suborder Corynebacterineae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:297-301.

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