Name: Tropicimonas arenosa Oh et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: a.re.no’sa. L. fem. adj. arenosa, sandy

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CAU 1062; KCTC 52178; NBRC 111995

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16S rRNA gene: KU719510 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Oh M, Kim JH, Kim W. Tropicimonasarenosa sp. nov., isolated from marine sand. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:5514-5518.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:525-528.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😢 The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. Contrasting the term "chemotaxonomic" with "phenotypic" is not recommended. Using the term "phylogenetic data" (or equivalent) for sequence data is not advocated. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details. Publication: Göker M. What can genome analysis offer for bacteria? In: Bridge P, Smith D, Stackebrandt E (eds), Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi, CAB International, Wallingford, 2021, p. 255-281.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Tropicimonas Harwati et al. 2009

Assigned by: Oh M, Kim JH, Kim W. Tropicimonasarenosa sp. nov., isolated from marine sand. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:5514-5518.

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Record number: 794975