Name: Terrimonas ferruginea (Sickles and Shaw 1934) Xie and Yokota 2006

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Flavobacterium ferrugineum Sickles and Shaw 1934 (Approved Lists 1980)

Etymology: fer.ru.gi’ne.a. L. fem. adj. ferruginea, rust-coloured

Pronunciation, gender: … fer-ru-GI-ne-a, feminine

Type strain: ATCC 13524; CCUG 33443; DSM 30193; IAM 15098; IFO 14992; JCM 21559; LMG 4021; NBRC 14992

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16S rRNA gene: M62798 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Xie CH, Yokota A. Reclassification of [Flavobacterium] ferrugineum as Terrimonas ferruginea gen. nov., comb. nov., and description of Terrimonas lutea sp. nov., isolated from soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1117-1121. 🇯🇵

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 56, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1719-1720.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Flavobacterium ferrugineum Sickles and Shaw 1934 (Approved Lists 1980)	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Emendations:
  • Jin et al. 2013 Jin D, Wang P, Bai Z, Jin B, Yu Z, Wang X, Zhuang G, Zhang H. Terrimonas pekingensis sp. nov., isolated from bulking sludge, and emended descriptions of the genus Terrimonas, Terrimonas ferruginea, Terrimonas lutea and Terrimonas aquatica. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1658-1664. 🇨🇳 Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2755-2756.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Terrimonas Xie and Yokota 2006. Publication: Xie CH, Yokota A. Reclassification of [Flavobacterium] ferrugineum as Terrimonas ferruginea gen. nov., comb. nov., and description of Terrimonas lutea sp. nov., isolated from soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1117-1121. 🇯🇵
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No". — 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 11 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
  • 🙆 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded risk group of the genus.
  • 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project. Publication: Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:2003. 🇩🇪

Parent taxon: Terrimonas Xie and Yokota 2006

Assigned by: Xie CH, Yokota A. Reclassification of [Flavobacterium] ferrugineum as Terrimonas ferruginea gen. nov., comb. nov., and description of Terrimonas lutea sp. nov., isolated from soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1117-1121. 🇯🇵

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