Name: Rhodoferax saidenbachensis Kaden et al. 2014

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: sai.den.bach.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. saidenbachensis, of Saidenbach reservoir in Germany, the geographical origin of isolation

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-1852; CCUG 57711; DSM 22694; ED16

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: FJ755906 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kaden R, Sproer C, Beyer D, Krolla-Sidenstein P. Rhodoferax saidenbachensis sp. nov., a psychrotolerant, very slowly growing bacterium within the family Comamonadaceae, proposal of appropriate taxonomic position of Albidiferax ferrireducens strain T118T in the genus Rhodoferax and emended description of the genus Rhodoferax. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:1186-1193.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 64, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2188-2190.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.01304 (N = 26).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 4 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Rhodoferax Hiraishi et al. 1992

Assigned by: Kaden R, Sproer C, Beyer D, Krolla-Sidenstein P. Rhodoferax saidenbachensis sp. nov., a psychrotolerant, very slowly growing bacterium within the family Comamonadaceae, proposal of appropriate taxonomic position of Albidiferax ferrireducens strain T118T in the genus Rhodoferax and emended description of the genus Rhodoferax. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:1186-1193.

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Record number: 791677