Name: Williamsia herbipolensis Kämpfer et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: her.bi.pol.en’sis. M.L. masc./fem. adj. herbipolensis, from Herbipolis, the Latin and medieval name of Würzburg, referring to the city where the sample was collected and the type strain isolated

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ARP1; DSM 46872; LMG 28679

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KP676047 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kampfer P, Busse HJ, Horn H, Abdelmohsen UR, Hentschel U, Glaeser SP. Williamsia herbipolensis sp. nov., isolated from the phyllosphere of Arabidopsis thaliana. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4609-4613.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:179-182.

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 1 time 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: Williamsia Kämpfer et al. 1999

Assigned by: Kampfer P, Busse HJ, Horn H, Abdelmohsen UR, Hentschel U, Glaeser SP. Williamsia herbipolensis sp. nov., isolated from the phyllosphere of Arabidopsis thaliana. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4609-4613.

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Record number: 794774