Name: Tessaracoccus oleiagri Cai et al. 2011

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: o.le.i.ag’ri. L. neut. n. oleum (gen. olei), oil; L. masc. n. ager (gen. agri), productive land, a field; N.L. gen. masc. n. oleiagri, of an oilfield, the place where the type strain was isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CGMCC 1.9159; DSM 22955; SL014B-20A1

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: GU111566 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Cai M, Wang L, Cai H, Li Y, Wang YN, Tang YQ, Wu XL. Salinarimonas ramus sp. nov. and Tessaracoccus oleiagri sp. nov., isolated from a crude oil-contaminated saline soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:1767-1775.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 61, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:2566-2567.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Nouioui et al. 2018 Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 29. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:13-32.

• Notes:
  • 😷 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: Tessaracoccus Maszenan et al. 1999

Assigned by: Cai M, Wang L, Cai H, Li Y, Wang YN, Tang YQ, Wu XL. Salinarimonas ramus sp. nov. and Tessaracoccus oleiagri sp. nov., isolated from a crude oil-contaminated saline soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:1767-1775.

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