Name: Solimonas variicoloris (Friedrich and Lipski 2008) Sheu et al. 2011

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Singularimonas variicoloris Friedrich and Lipski 2008

Etymology: va.ri.i.co.lo’ris. L. masc. adj. varius, varying; L. gen. masc. n. coloris, of colour; N.L. gen. masc. n. variicoloris, of varying colour

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 15731; LMG 22844; MN28

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AJ555478 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Sheu SY, Cho NT, Arun AB, Chen WM. Proposal of Solimonas aquatica sp. nov., reclassification of Sinobacter flavus Zhou et al. 2008 as Solimonas flava comb. nov. and Singularimonas variicoloris Friedrich and Lipski 2008 as Solimonas variicoloris comb. nov. and emended descriptions of the genus Solimonas and its type species Solimonas soli. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:2284-2291.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 61, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:2797-2798.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Sinobacter variicoloris" (Friedrich and Lipski 2008) Xu et al. 2011	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    Singularimonas variicoloris Friedrich and Lipski 2008	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 😢 The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. Contrasting the term "chemotaxonomic" with "phenotypic" is not recommended. Using the term "phylogenetic data" (or equivalent) for sequence data is not advocated. Whether taxa can have "members" is debatable. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details. Publication: Göker M. What can genome analysis offer for bacteria? In: Bridge P, Smith D, Stackebrandt E (eds), Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi, CAB International, Wallingford, 2021, p. 255-281.
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.08986 (N = 7).
  • 😷 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 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project. Publication: Mukherjee S, Seshadri R, Varghese NJ, Eloe-Fadrosh EA, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Goker M, Coates RC, Hadjithomas M, Pavlopoulos GA, Paez-Espino D, et al. 1,003 reference genomes of bacterial and archaeal isolates expand coverage of the tree of life. Nat Biotechnol 2017; 35:676-683.

Parent taxon: Solimonas Kim et al. 2007

Assigned by: Sheu SY, Cho NT, Arun AB, Chen WM. Proposal of Solimonas aquatica sp. nov., reclassification of Sinobacter flavus Zhou et al. 2008 as Solimonas flava comb. nov. and Singularimonas variicoloris Friedrich and Lipski 2008 as Solimonas variicoloris comb. nov. and emended descriptions of the genus Solimonas and its type species Solimonas soli. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:2284-2291.

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