Name: Teredinibacter waterburyi Altamia et al. 2020

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: wa.ter.bu’ry.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. waterburyi, named in honour of the microbiologist Dr. John Waterbury who first isolated symbionts from teredinid bivalves

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: te-re-di-ni-BAK-ter wa-ter-BU-ry-i, masculine

Type strain: ATCC TSD-120; Bs02; KCTC 62963

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16S rRNA gene: MK938300 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Altamia MA, Shipway JR, Stein D, Betcher MA, Fung JM, Jospin G, Eisen J, Haygood MG, Distel DL. Teredinibacter waterburyi sp. nov., a marine, cellulolytic endosymbiotic bacterium isolated from the gills of the wood-boring mollusc Bankia setacea (Bivalvia: Teredinidae) and emended description of the genus Teredinibacter. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:2388-2394. 🇺🇸

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 70, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4050-4060.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2026-08-13. 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 2026-06-11.

Parent taxon: Teredinibacter Distel et al. 2002

Assigned by: Altamia MA, Shipway JR, Stein D, Betcher MA, Fung JM, Jospin G, Eisen J, Haygood MG, Distel DL. Teredinibacter waterburyi sp. nov., a marine, cellulolytic endosymbiotic bacterium isolated from the gills of the wood-boring mollusc Bankia setacea (Bivalvia: Teredinidae) and emended description of the genus Teredinibacter. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:2388-2394. 🇺🇸

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Record number: 1704