Name: Sporomusa rhizae Gößner et al. 2006

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: rhi’zae. N.L. gen. fem. n. rhizae, of the root; from Gr. fem. n. rhiza, root, to indicate a spore-forming banana (per epithet of Sporomusa) from roots

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-1028; DSM 16652; RS

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16S rRNA gene: AM158322 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Gossner AS, Kusel K, Schulz D, Trenz S, Acker G, Lovell CR, Drake HL. Trophic interaction of the aerotolerant anaerobe Clostridium intestinale and the acetogen Sporomusa rhizae sp. nov. isolated from roots of the black needlerush Juncus roemerianus. Microbiology (Reading) 2006; 152:1209-1219.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 110. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1459-1460.

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: Sporomusa Möller et al. 1985

Assigned by: Gossner AS, Kusel K, Schulz D, Trenz S, Acker G, Lovell CR, Drake HL. Trophic interaction of the aerotolerant anaerobe Clostridium intestinale and the acetogen Sporomusa rhizae sp. nov. isolated from roots of the black needlerush Juncus roemerianus. Microbiology (Reading) 2006; 152:1209-1219.

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