Name: Ruegeria intermedia Kämpfer et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: in.ter.me’di.a. L. fem. adj. intermedia, that is between, intermediate, referring to the fact that the species is grouped between the genera Ruegeria, Lutimaribacter and Pseudoruegeria on the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CC-GIMAT-2; CCM 7758; CCUG 59209; DSM 23285; DSM 29341; LMG 25539

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: FR832879 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kampfer P, Arun AB, Rekha PD, Busse HJ, Young CC, Glaeser SP. Ruegeria intermedia sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic bacterium isolated from a coastal hot spring. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2538-2544.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3549-3550.

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:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.06900 (N = 72).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Ruegeria Uchino et al. 1999

Assigned by: Kampfer P, Arun AB, Rekha PD, Busse HJ, Young CC, Glaeser SP. Ruegeria intermedia sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic bacterium isolated from a coastal hot spring. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2538-2544.

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Record number: 790928