Name: Subtercola vilae Villalobos et al. 2018

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: vi’lae. N.L. gen. fem. n. vilae, of Vila, named in honour of Irma Vila, a Chilean limnologist with outstanding contributions to the microbiology and ecology of lakes in the Chilean Altiplano and Atacama Desert

Pronunciation, gender: WI-la͡e, masculine

Type strain: DB165; DSM 105013; JCM 32044

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: MF276890 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Villalobos AS, Wiese J, Aguilar P, Dorador C, Imhoff JF. Subtercola vilae sp. nov., a novel actinobacterium from an extremely high-altitude cold volcano lake in Chile. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2018; 111:955-963.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 184. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:3379-3393.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.10216 (N = 29).
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.

Parent taxon: Subtercola Männistö et al. 2000

Assigned by: Villalobos AS, Wiese J, Aguilar P, Dorador C, Imhoff JF. Subtercola vilae sp. nov., a novel actinobacterium from an extremely high-altitude cold volcano lake in Chile. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2018; 111:955-963.

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Record number: 797984