Name: Okibacterium fritillariae Evtushenko et al. 2002

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: fri.til.la’ri.ae. N.L. gen. fem. n. fritillariae, of Fritillaria, generic name of plant, the source of isolation of the type strain of the species

Gender: neuter

Type strain: DSM 15271; IFO 16404; JCM 12284; NBRC 16404; VKM Ac-2059

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB042094 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Evtushenko LI, Dorofeeva LV, Krausova VI, Gavrish EY, Yashina SG, Takeuchi M. Okibacterium fritillariae gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel genus of the family Microbacteriaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:987-993.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 52, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1077-1079.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Okibacterium Evtushenko et al. 2002. Publication: Evtushenko LI, Dorofeeva LV, Krausova VI, Gavrish EY, Yashina SG, Takeuchi M. Okibacterium fritillariae gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel genus of the family Microbacteriaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:987-993.
  • 😷 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.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Nouioui et al. (2018). Publication: Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007.

Parent taxon: Okibacterium Evtushenko et al. 2002

Assigned by: Evtushenko LI, Dorofeeva LV, Krausova VI, Gavrish EY, Yashina SG, Takeuchi M. Okibacterium fritillariae gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel genus of the family Microbacteriaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:987-993.

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