Name: Tetrasphaera japonica Maszenan et al. 2000

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ja.po’ni.ca. N.L. fem. adj. japonica, pertaining to Japan, from where the isolate originated

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ACM 5116; DSM 13192; JCM 21381; NBRC 103088; T1-X7

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AF125092 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Maszenan AM, Seviour RJ, Patel BK, Schumann P, Burghardt J, Tokiwa Y, Stratton HM. Three isolates of novel polyphosphate-accumulating gram-positive cocci, obtained from activated sludge, belong to a new genus, Tetrasphaera gen. nov., and description of two new species, Tetrasphaera japonica sp. nov. and Tetrasphaera australiensis sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:593-603.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 50, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:951-953.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Nostocoides japonicum (Maszenan et al. 2000) Deshmukh and Oren 2024

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Nostocoides japonicum (Maszenan et al. 2000) Deshmukh and Oren 2024	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Tetrasphaera Maszenan et al. 2000. Publication: Maszenan AM, Seviour RJ, Patel BK, Schumann P, Burghardt J, Tokiwa Y, Stratton HM. Three isolates of novel polyphosphate-accumulating gram-positive cocci, obtained from activated sludge, belong to a new genus, Tetrasphaera gen. nov., and description of two new species, Tetrasphaera japonica sp. nov. and Tetrasphaera australiensis sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:593-603.
  • 😷 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 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Nouioui et al. (2018). Publication: 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.

Parent taxon: Tetrasphaera Maszenan et al. 2000

Assigned by: Maszenan AM, Seviour RJ, Patel BK, Schumann P, Burghardt J, Tokiwa Y, Stratton HM. Three isolates of novel polyphosphate-accumulating gram-positive cocci, obtained from activated sludge, belong to a new genus, Tetrasphaera gen. nov., and description of two new species, Tetrasphaera japonica sp. nov. and Tetrasphaera australiensis sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:593-603.

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