Name: Tessaracoccus bendigoensis Maszenan et al. 1999

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ben.di.go’en.sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. bendigoensis, referring to Bendigo, the place of origin of the isolate [probably better: bendigonensis]

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ACM 5119; Ben 106; DSM 12906; JCM 13525

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AF038504 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Maszenan AM, Seviour RJ, Patel BK, Schumann P, Rees GN. Tessaracoccus bendigoensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a gram-positive coccus occurring in regular packages or tetrads, isolated from activated sludge biomass. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:459-468.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 49, part 2 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:937-939.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Nouioui et al. 2018 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. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 29. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:13-32.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Tessaracoccus Maszenan et al. 1999. Publication: Maszenan AM, Seviour RJ, Patel BK, Schumann P, Rees GN. Tessaracoccus bendigoensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a gram-positive coccus occurring in regular packages or tetrads, isolated from activated sludge biomass. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:459-468.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1". — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 8 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Tessaracoccus Maszenan et al. 1999

Assigned by: Maszenan AM, Seviour RJ, Patel BK, Schumann P, Rees GN. Tessaracoccus bendigoensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a gram-positive coccus occurring in regular packages or tetrads, isolated from activated sludge biomass. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:459-468.

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