Species Sphingobacterium heparinum

Name: Sphingobacterium heparinum (Payza and Korn 1956) Takeuchi and Yokota 1993

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Flavobacterium heparinum Payza and Korn 1956 (Approved Lists 1980)

Etymology: he.pa.ri’num. Gr. neut. n. hêpar, liver; N.L. neut. adj. heparinum, of or pertaining to degradation of heparin, acidic mucoheteropolysaccharide with sulfate groups from various animal tissues

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC 13125; CCUG 12810; CIP 104194; CIP 105498; DSM 2366; IFO 12017; JCM 7457; LMG 10339; LMG 4024; NBRC 12017; NCIB 9290; NCIMB 9290; NRRL B-14731

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AJ438172 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Takeuchi M, Yokota A. Proposals of Sphingobacterium faecium sp. nov., Sphingobacterium piscium sp. nov., Sphingobacterium heparinum comb. nov., Sphingobacterium thalpophilum comb. nov., and two genospecies of the genus Sphingobacterium and synonymy of Flavobacterium yabuuchiae and Sphingobacterium spiritivorum. J. Gen. Appl. Microbiol. 1992; 38:465-482.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 47. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1993; 43:864-865.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Pedobacter heparinus (Payza and Korn 1956) Steyn et al. 1998

Risk group: 1

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Cytophaga heparina (Payza and Korn 1956) Christensen 1980	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
Flavobacterium heparinum Payza and Korn 1956 (Approved Lists 1980)	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
Pedobacter heparinus (Payza and Korn 1956) Steyn et al. 1998	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Notes:
- ❗ Sphingobacterium heparinum is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Sphingobacterium.
- 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1". — The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — 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.

Parent taxon: Sphingobacterium Yabuuchi et al. 1983

Assigned by: Takeuchi M, Yokota A. Proposals of Sphingobacterium faecium sp. nov., Sphingobacterium piscium sp. nov., Sphingobacterium heparinum comb. nov., Sphingobacterium thalpophilum comb. nov., and two genospecies of the genus Sphingobacterium and synonymy of Flavobacterium yabuuchiae and Sphingobacterium spiritivorum. J. Gen. Appl. Microbiol. 1992; 38:465-482.

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