Name: Verrucosispora maris Goodfellow et al. 2012

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: mar’is. L. gen. neut. n. maris, of the sea, denoting the source of the isolate

Gender: feminine

Type strain: AB-18-032; DSM 45365; JCM 31040; NRRL B-24793

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AY528866 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Goodfellow M, Stach JE, Brown R, Bonda AN, Jones AL, Mexson J, Fiedler HP, Zucchi TD, Bull AT. Verrucosispora maris sp. nov., a novel deep-sea actinomycete isolated from a marine sediment which produces abyssomicins. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2012; 101:185-193.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 144. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:473-475.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Micromonospora maris (Goodfellow et al. 2012) Nouioui et al. 2018

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Micromonospora maris (Goodfellow et al. 2012) Nouioui et al. 2018	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ❗ Verrucosispora maris 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 Verrucosispora.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 7 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 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: Verrucosispora Rheims et al. 1998

Assigned by: Goodfellow M, Stach JE, Brown R, Bonda AN, Jones AL, Mexson J, Fiedler HP, Zucchi TD, Bull AT. Verrucosispora maris sp. nov., a novel deep-sea actinomycete isolated from a marine sediment which produces abyssomicins. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2012; 101:185-193.

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