Name: Terrimonas crocea Kim et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: cro.ce’a. L. fem. adj. crocea, yellow

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CCTCC AB 2016103; KCTC 52448; M1-33108

See detailed strain information at

16S rRNA gene: KX139009 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kim MC, Kang OC, Kim CM, Zhang Y, Liu Z, Wei Z, Huang Y, Danzeng W, Peng F. Terrimonas crocea sp. nov., isolated from the till of a high Arctic glacier. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:868-874.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2079-2080.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😢 The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. Contrasting the term "chemotaxonomic" with "phenotypic" is not recommended. Using the term "phylogenetic data" (or equivalent) for sequence data is not advocated. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details. Publication: Göker M. What can genome analysis offer for bacteria? In: Bridge P, Smith D, Stackebrandt E (eds), Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi, CAB International, Wallingford, 2021, p. 255-281.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Terrimonas Xie and Yokota 2006

Assigned by: Kim MC, Kang OC, Kim CM, Zhang Y, Liu Z, Wei Z, Huang Y, Danzeng W, Peng F. Terrimonas crocea sp. nov., isolated from the till of a high Arctic glacier. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:868-874.

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Record number: 795194