Name: Sanguibacter gelidistatuariae Pikuta et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ge.li.di.sta.tu.a’ri.ae. L. masc. adj. gelidus, ice-cold; L. fem. adj. statuaria, a statue, sculpture; L. gen. fem. n. statuariae, of ice sculpture (geological term); N.L. gen. fem. n. gelidistatuariae, pertaining to the naturally formed ice sculpture, from which the type strain was isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC TSD-17; DSM 100501; ISLP-3; JCM 30887

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KM406784 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Pikuta EV, Lyu Z, Williams MD, Patel NB, Liu Y, Hoover RB, Busse HJ, Lawson PA, Whitman WB. Sanguibacter gelidistatuariae sp. nov., a novel psychrotolerant anaerobe from an ice sculpture in Antarctica, and emendation of descriptions of the family Sanguibacteraceae, the genus Sanguibacter and species S. antarcticus, S. inulinus, S. kedieii, S. marinus, S. soli and S. suarezii. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1442-1450.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2495-2498.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Sanguibacter Fernández-Garayzábal et al. 1995

Assigned by: Pikuta EV, Lyu Z, Williams MD, Patel NB, Liu Y, Hoover RB, Busse HJ, Lawson PA, Whitman WB. Sanguibacter gelidistatuariae sp. nov., a novel psychrotolerant anaerobe from an ice sculpture in Antarctica, and emendation of descriptions of the family Sanguibacteraceae, the genus Sanguibacter and species S. antarcticus, S. inulinus, S. kedieii, S. marinus, S. soli and S. suarezii. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1442-1450.

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Record number: 795234