Name: Nitratireductor aquibiodomus Labbé et al. 2004

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: a.qui.bi.o.do’mus. L. fem. n. aqua, water; N.L. gen. fem. n. biodomus, Biodome; N.L. gen. fem. n. aquibiodomus, of the water of the Montreal Biodome

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-762; DSM 15645; JCM 21793; NL21

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AF534573 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Labbe N, Parent S, Villemur R. Nitratireductor aquibiodomus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel alpha-proteobacterium from the marine denitrification system of the Montreal Biodome (Canada). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:269-273.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 54, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:633-634.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Hördt et al. 2020 Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Nitratireductor Labbé et al. 2004. Publication: Labbe N, Parent S, Villemur R. Nitratireductor aquibiodomus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel alpha-proteobacterium from the marine denitrification system of the Montreal Biodome (Canada). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:269-273.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 11 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Nitratireductor Labbé et al. 2004

Assigned by: Labbe N, Parent S, Villemur R. Nitratireductor aquibiodomus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel alpha-proteobacterium from the marine denitrification system of the Montreal Biodome (Canada). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:269-273.

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Record number: 778669