Name: Herminiimonas fonticola Fernandes et al. 2005

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: fon.ti’co.la. L. masc. n. fons (gen. fontis), a spring, fountain; L. masc./fem. n. suff. -cola, an inhabitant of a place, a resident (from Latin masculine or feminine noun incola); N.L. masc./fem. n. fonticola, an inhabitant of a fountain

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CCUG 52513; CIP 108398; DSM 18555; LMG 22527; S-94

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AY676462 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Fernandes C, Rainey FA, Nobre MF, Pinhal I, Folhas F, da Costa MS. Herminiimonas fonticola gen. nov., sp. nov., a Betaproteobacterium isolated from a source of bottled mineral water. Syst Appl Microbiol 2005; 28:596-603.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 106. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:2235-2238.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Herminiimonas Fernandes et al. 2005. Publication: Fernandes C, Rainey FA, Nobre MF, Pinhal I, Folhas F, da Costa MS. Herminiimonas fonticola gen. nov., sp. nov., a Betaproteobacterium isolated from a source of bottled mineral water. Syst Appl Microbiol 2005; 28:596-603.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 6 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 In the etymology provided in the effective publication, the Latin nominative noun fons is erroneously cited as fontis (fontis is the genitive and means of a fountain). Validation List no. 106 in IJSEM Online. Publication: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 106. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:2235-2238.

Parent taxon: Herminiimonas Fernandes et al. 2005

Assigned by: Fernandes C, Rainey FA, Nobre MF, Pinhal I, Folhas F, da Costa MS. Herminiimonas fonticola gen. nov., sp. nov., a Betaproteobacterium isolated from a source of bottled mineral water. Syst Appl Microbiol 2005; 28:596-603.

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