Name: Leucobacter chromiireducens subsp. chromiireducens (Morais et al. 2005) Muir and Tan 2007

Category: Subspecies

Proposed as: subsp. nov.

Basonym: Leucobacter chromiireducens Morais et al. 2005

Etymology: chro.mi.i.re.du’cens. N.L. neut. n. chromium, chromium (Cr); L. pres. part. reducens, drawing backwards, bringing back to a state or conditionand and, in chemistry, converting to a reduced oxidation state; from L. inf. v. reducere, to bring back, reduce; N.L. part. adj. chromiireducens, chromium reducing

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CIP 108389; DSM 17381; JCM 13322; L-1; LMG 22506

See detailed strain information at

Valid publication: Muir RE, Tan MW. Leucobacter chromiireducens subsp. solipictus subsp. nov., a pigmented bacterium isolated from the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, and emended description of L. chromiireducens. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2770-2776.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:531-532.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🙋 This subspecies could be automatically created (rule 40d) by the valid publication of Leucobacter chromiireducens subsp. solipictus Muir and Tan 2007 but an explicit description was also provided. Publication: Muir RE, Tan MW. Leucobacter chromiireducens subsp. solipictus subsp. nov., a pigmented bacterium isolated from the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, and emended description of L. chromiireducens. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2770-2776.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🧍 The original authorship, Morais et al. 2005, was corrected according to the new Rule 40d. Publication: Garrity GM, Labeda DP, Oren A. Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. XIIth International (IUMS) Congress of Bacteriology and Applied Microbiology. Minutes of the meetings, 3, 4 and 6 August 2008, Istanbul, Turkey. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2011; 61:2775-2780.

Parent taxon: Leucobacter chromiireducens Morais et al. 2005

Assigned by: Muir RE, Tan MW. Leucobacter chromiireducens subsp. solipictus subsp. nov., a pigmented bacterium isolated from the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, and emended description of L. chromiireducens. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2770-2776.

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Record number: 786971