Name: Taonella mepensis Xi et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: me.pen’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. mepensis, of or belonging to Mepe, short for the Laboratory of Microbial Ecology and Protein Engineering

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CCTCC AB 2012861; CICC 10529; H1; KACC 16940

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16S rRNA gene: JN693496 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Xi XD, Dong WL, Zhang J, Huang Y, Cui ZL. Taonella mepensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Rhodospirillaceae isolated from activated sludge. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2472-2476.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3549-3550.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Taonella Xi et al. 2013. Publication: Xi XD, Dong WL, Zhang J, Huang Y, Cui ZL. Taonella mepensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Rhodospirillaceae isolated from activated sludge. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2472-2476.
  • 😢 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.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 5 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Taonella Xi et al. 2013

Assigned by: Xi XD, Dong WL, Zhang J, Huang Y, Cui ZL. Taonella mepensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Rhodospirillaceae isolated from activated sludge. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2472-2476.

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