Name: Sporosalibacterium tautonense Podosokorskaya et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

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

Pronunciation, gender: ta͡u-to-NEN-se, 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. — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.

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