Name: Thermoactinomyces khenchelensis Mokrane et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: khen.chel.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. khenchelensis, referring to Khenchela, the source of the soil from which the type strain T36T was isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CECT 8579; DSM 45951; T36

See detailed strain information at

16S rRNA gene: KT277569 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Mokrane S, Bouras N, Meklat A, Lahoum A, Zitouni A, Verheecke C, Mathieu F, Schumann P, Sproer C, Sabaou N, et al. Thermoactinomyces khenchelensis sp. nov., a filamentous bacterium isolated from soil sediment of a terrestrial hot spring. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2016; 109:311-317.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 175. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1095-1098.

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 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Thermoactinomyces Tsiklinsky 1899 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Mokrane S, Bouras N, Meklat A, Lahoum A, Zitouni A, Verheecke C, Mathieu F, Schumann P, Sproer C, Sabaou N, et al. Thermoactinomyces khenchelensis sp. nov., a filamentous bacterium isolated from soil sediment of a terrestrial hot spring. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2016; 109:311-317.

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Record number: 794009