Name: Thiorhodococcus bheemlicus Anil Kumar et al. 2007

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: bhee’mli.cus. N.L. masc. adj. bheemlicus, named after Bheemli, the place from which the type strain was isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-1362; DSM 18805; JA132; JCM 14149; MTCC 8120

See detailed strain information at

16S rRNA gene: AM282559 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Anil Kumar P, Sasi Jyothsna TS, Srinivas TN, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV, Imhoff JF. Two novel species of marine phototrophic Gammaproteobacteria: Thiorhodococcus bheemlicus sp. nov. and Thiorhodococcus kakinadensis sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2458-2461.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:313-314.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Imhoffiella bheemlica (Anil Kumar et al. 2007) Nupur et al. 2017

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Imhoffiella bheemlica (Anil Kumar et al. 2007) Nupur et al. 2017	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ❗ Thiorhodococcus bheemlicus is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Thiorhodococcus.
  • 😷 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.

Parent taxon: Thiorhodococcus Guyoneaud et al. 1998

Assigned by: Anil Kumar P, Sasi Jyothsna TS, Srinivas TN, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV, Imhoff JF. Two novel species of marine phototrophic Gammaproteobacteria: Thiorhodococcus bheemlicus sp. nov. and Thiorhodococcus kakinadensis sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2458-2461.

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Record number: 786909