Name: Williamsia herbipolensis Kämpfer et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: her.bi.po.len’sis. M.L. 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

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … her-bi-po-LEN-sis, feminine

Type strain: ARP1; DSM 46872; LMG 28679

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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 (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
  • 🙆 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded pathogenicity of other species in the genus.
  • 🧍 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