Name: Stenothermobacter spongiae Lau et al. 2006

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: spon’gi.ae. L. gen. fem. n. spongiae, of a sponge, pertaining to the isolation source of the type strain

Gender: masculine

Type strain: JCM 13191; NRRL B-41138; UST030701-156

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: DQ064789 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Lau SC, Tsoi MM, Li X, Plakhotnikova I, Dobretsov S, Wu M, Wong PK, Pawlik JR, Qian PY. Stenothermobacter spongiae gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from a marine sponge in the Bahamas, and emended description of Nonlabens tegetincola. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:181-185.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 56, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:679-680.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Nonlabens spongiae (Lau et al. 2006) Yi and Chun 2012

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Nonlabens spongiae (Lau et al. 2006) Yi and Chun 2012	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Stenothermobacter Lau et al. 2006. Publication: Lau SC, Tsoi MM, Li X, Plakhotnikova I, Dobretsov S, Wu M, Wong PK, Pawlik JR, Qian PY. Stenothermobacter spongiae gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from a marine sponge in the Bahamas, and emended description of Nonlabens tegetincola. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:181-185.
  • 😢 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. 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.
  • ❗ Stenothermobacter spongiae 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 Stenothermobacter.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Stenothermobacter Lau et al. 2006

Assigned by: Lau SC, Tsoi MM, Li X, Plakhotnikova I, Dobretsov S, Wu M, Wong PK, Pawlik JR, Qian PY. Stenothermobacter spongiae gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from a marine sponge in the Bahamas, and emended description of Nonlabens tegetincola. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:181-185.

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