Name: Tessaracoccus rhinocerotis Li et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: rhi.no.ce.ro’tis. L. gen. masc. n. rhinocerotis, of a rhinoceros

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CCTCC AB 2013217; DSM 27597; YIM 101269

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KT215777 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Li GD, Chen X, Li QY, Xu FJ, Qiu SM, Jiang Y, Jiang CL. Tessaracoccus rhinocerotis sp. nov., isolated from the faeces of Rhinoceros unicornis. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:922-927.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1916-1919.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 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.
  • 🧍 In the original publication, the collection number of the DSMZ is mistakenly cited as DSM 27579, The correct Number is DSM 27597. — Leibniz Institute DSMZ. Prokaryotic Nomenclature Up-to-date, 2018-12-11.

Parent taxon: Tessaracoccus Maszenan et al. 1999

Assigned by: Li GD, Chen X, Li QY, Xu FJ, Qiu SM, Jiang Y, Jiang CL. Tessaracoccus rhinocerotis sp. nov., isolated from the faeces of Rhinoceros unicornis. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:922-927.

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Record number: 793800