Name: Parapedobacter composti Kim et al. 2010

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: com.pos’ti. N.L. gen. neut. n. composti, of/ from compost

Gender: masculine

Type strain: 4M40; DSM 22900; JCM 15978; KACC 10972

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: FJ754321 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kim SJ, Weon HY, Kim YS, Yoo SH, Kim BY, Anandham R, Kwon SW. Parapedobacter luteus sp. nov. and Parapedobacter composti sp. nov., isolated from cotton waste compost. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1849-1853.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2511-2512.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • García-López et al. 2019 Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083. 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:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.05386 (N = 8).
  • 😷 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 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 The epithet composti is a neo-Latin noun, not a latin noun as cited in the paper by Kim et al. 2010. Publication: Euzeby JP. List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:590-592.

Parent taxon: Parapedobacter Kim et al. 2007

Assigned by: Kim SJ, Weon HY, Kim YS, Yoo SH, Kim BY, Anandham R, Kwon SW. Parapedobacter luteus sp. nov. and Parapedobacter composti sp. nov., isolated from cotton waste compost. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1849-1853.

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