Name: Sneathiella glossodoripedis Kurahashi et al. 2008

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: glos.so.do.ri.pe’dis. N.L. fem. n. Glossodoris, name of a zoological genus; L. gen. masc. n. pedis, of the foot; N.L. gen. masc. n. glossodoripedis, of the foot of Glossodoris (G. cincta), the source of isolation of the type strain

Gender: feminine

Type strain: IAM 15419; JCM 23214; KCTC 12842; MKT 133

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB289439 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kurahashi M, Fukunaga Y, Harayama S, Yokota A. Sneathiella glossodoripedis sp. nov., a marine alphaproteobacterium isolated from the nudibranch Glossodoris cincta, and proposal of Sneathiellales ord. nov. and Sneathiellaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:548-552.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 58, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1273-1274.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Hördt et al. 2020 Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.15333 (N = 1).
  • 😷 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: Sneathiella Jordan et al. 2007

Assigned by: Kurahashi M, Fukunaga Y, Harayama S, Yokota A. Sneathiella glossodoripedis sp. nov., a marine alphaproteobacterium isolated from the nudibranch Glossodoris cincta, and proposal of Sneathiellales ord. nov. and Sneathiellaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:548-552.

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Record number: 787231