Name: Sporosalibacterium tautonense Podosokorskaya et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: tau.ton.en’se. N.L. neut. adj. tautonense, from the TauTona gold mine in South Africa, where the type strain was isolated

Gender: neuter

Type strain: DSM 28179; MRo-4; VKM B-2948

See detailed strain information at

16S rRNA gene: KX371568 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Podosokorskaya OA, Merkel AY, Heerden EV, Cason ED, Kopitsyn DS, Vasilieva M, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Kublanov IV. Sporosalibacterium tautonense sp. nov., a thermotolerant, halophilic, hydrolytic bacterium isolated from a gold mine, and emended description of the genus Sporosalibacterium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1457-1461.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2495-2498.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 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: Sporosalibacterium Rezgui et al. 2011

Assigned by: Podosokorskaya OA, Merkel AY, Heerden EV, Cason ED, Kopitsyn DS, Vasilieva M, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Kublanov IV. Sporosalibacterium tautonense sp. nov., a thermotolerant, halophilic, hydrolytic bacterium isolated from a gold mine, and emended description of the genus Sporosalibacterium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1457-1461.

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Record number: 795278