VALIDATION LIST NO. 97:

Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSEM
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 631-632. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

NOTIFICATION LIST:

Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 54, part 1, of the IJSEM
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 633-634. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

NEW TAXA: Archaea:

Adris Georgis Shlimon, Michael W. Friedrich, Helge Niemann, Niels Birger Ramsing, and Kai Finster

Methanobacterium aarhusense sp. nov., a novel methanogen isolated from a marine sediment (Aarhus Bay, Denmark)
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 759-763. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

NEW TAXA: Gram-Positive Bacteria:

C. Y. Turenne, L. Thibert, K. Williams, T. V. Burdz, V. J. Cook, J. N. Wolfe, D. W. Cockcroft, and A. Kabani

Mycobacterium saskatchewanense sp. nov., a novel slowly growing scotochromogenic species from human clinical isolates related to Mycobacterium interjectum and Accuprobe-positive for Mycobacterium avium complex
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 659-667. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figures and Table]  

Erko Stackebrandt, Peter Schumann, and Xiao-Long Cui

Reclassification of Cellulosimicrobium variabile Bakalidou et al. 2002 as Isoptericola variabilis gen. nov., comb. nov.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 685-688. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ping Xu, Wen-Jun Li, Wen-long Wu, Dong Wang, Li-Hua Xu, and Cheng-Lin Jiang

Streptomyces hebeiensis sp. nov.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 727-731. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Sequence similarities]  

Vladimir Gorlenko, Alexandre Tsapin, Zorigto Namsaraev, Tracy Teal, Tatyana Tourova, Diane Engler, Randy Mielke, and Kenneth Nealson

Anaerobranca californiensis sp. nov., an anaerobic, alkalithermophilic, fermentative bacterium isolated from a hot spring on Mono Lake
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 739-743. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lesley Hoyles, Matthew D. Collins, Geoffrey Foster, Enevold Falsen, and Peter Schumann

Jeotgalicoccus pinnipedialis sp. nov., from a southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina)
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 745-748. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Peter Kämpfer and Reiner M. Kroppenstedt

Pseudonocardia benzenivorans sp. nov.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 749-751. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary table and figure]  

Ludmila Kotoucková, Peter Schumann, Eva Durnová, Cathrin Spröer, Ivo Sedlácek, Jirí Neca, Zbynek Zdráhal, and Miroslav Nemec

Arthrobacter nitroguajacolicus sp. nov., a novel 4-nitroguaiacol-degrading actinobacterium
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 773-777. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Hua-Hong Chen, Wen-Jun Li, Shu-Kun Tang, Reiner M. Kroppenstedt, Erko Stackebrandt, Li-Hua Xu, and Cheng-Lin Jiang

Corynebacterium halotolerans sp. nov., isolated from saline soil in the west of China
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 779-782. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Célia M. Manaia, Balbina Nogales, Norbert Weiss, and Olga C. Nunes

Gulosibacter molinativorax gen. nov., sp. nov., a molinate-degrading bacterium, and classification of ‘Brevibacterium helvolum’ DSM 20419 as Pseudoclavibacter helvolus gen. nov., sp. nov.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 783-789. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [TEMs and fatty acid details]  

Jung-Hoon Yoon, In-Gi Kim, Kook Hee Kang, Tae-Kwang Oh, and Yong-Ha Park

Bacillus hwajinpoensis sp. nov. and an unnamed Bacillus genomospecies, novel members of Bacillus rRNA group 6 isolated from sea water of the East Sea and the Yellow Sea in Korea
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 803-808. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figures]  

Franco Dellaglio, Sandra Torriani, and Giovanna E. Felis

Reclassification of Lactobacillus cellobiosus Rogosa et al. 1953 as a later synonym of Lactobacillus fermentum Beijerinck 1901
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 809-812. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ying Li, Yoshiaki Kawamura, Nagatoshi Fujiwara, Takashi Naka, Hongsheng Liu, Xinxiang Huang, Kazuo Kobayashi, and Takayuki Ezaki

Rothia aeria sp. nov., Rhodococcus baikonurensis sp. nov. and Arthrobacter russicus sp. nov., isolated from air in the Russian space laboratory Mir
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 827-835. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Wen-Jun Li, Hua-Hong Chen, Yu-Qin Zhang, Peter Schumann, Erko Stackebrandt, Li-Hua Xu, and Cheng-Lin Jiang

Nesterenkonia halotolerans sp. nov. and Nesterenkonia xinjiangensis sp. nov., actinobacteria from saline soils in the west of China
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 837-841. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Transmission electron micrographs]  

Patsy Scheldeman, Karen Goossens, Marina Rodriguez-Diaz, Annelies Pil, Johan Goris, Lieve Herman, Paul De Vos, Niall A. Logan, and Marc Heyndrickx

Paenibacillus lactis sp. nov., isolated from raw and heat-treated milk
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 885-891. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figures and Tables]  

Matthew D. Collins, Lesley Hoyles, Geoffrey Foster, and Enevold Falsen

Corynebacterium caspium sp. nov., from a Caspian seal (Phoca caspica)
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 925-928. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jung-Sook Lee, Yu-Ryang Pyun, and Kyung Sook Bae

Transfer of Bacillus ehimensis and Bacillus chitinolyticus to the genus Paenibacillus with emended descriptions of Paenibacillus ehimensis comb. nov. and Paenibacillus chitinolyticus comb. nov.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 929-933. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Elke De Clerck, Marina Rodríguez-Díaz, Tom Vanhoutte, Jeroen Heyrman, Niall A. Logan, and Paul De Vos

Anoxybacillus contaminans sp. nov. and Bacillus gelatini sp. nov., isolated from contaminated gelatin batches
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 941-946. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figures and tables]  

Jin-Woo Bae, Ja Ryeong Park, Young-Hyo Chang, Sung-Keun Rhee, Byung-Chun Kim, and Yong-Ha Park

Clostridium hastiforme is a later synonym of Tissierella praeacuta
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 947-949. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Chunyang Zhang, Xiaoli Liu, and Xiuzhu Dong

Syntrophomonas curvata sp. nov., an anaerobe that degrades fatty acids in co-culture with methanogens
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 969-973. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figure]  

NEW TAXA: Proteobacteria:

Monica Bonilla Salinas, Marie-Laure Fardeau, Jean-Luc Cayol, Laurence Casalot, Bharat K. C. Patel, Pierre Thomas, Jean-Louis Garcia, and Bernard Ollivier

Petrobacter succinatimandens gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic, nitrate-reducing bacterium isolated from an Australian oil well
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 645-649. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Ingo Fritz, Carsten Strömpl, and Wolf-Rainer Abraham

Phylogenetic relationships of the genera Stella, Labrys and Angulomicrobium within the ‘Alphaproteobacteria’ and description of Angulomicrobium amanitiforme sp. nov.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 651-657. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lyudmila A. Romanenko, Peter Schumann, Manfred Rohde, Valery V. Mikhailov, and Erko Stackebrandt

Reinekea marinisedimentorum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel gammaproteobacterium from marine coastal sediments
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 669-673. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Karen Vermis, Tom Coenye, John J. LiPuma, Eshwar Mahenthiralingam, Hans J. Nelis, and Peter Vandamme

Proposal to accommodate Burkholderia cepacia genomovar VI as Burkholderia dolosa sp. nov.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 689-691. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Strain details]  

Midori Kurahashi and Akira Yokota

Agarivorans albus gen. nov., sp. nov., a -proteobacterium isolated from marine animals
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 693-697. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bernard La Scola, Richard J. Birtles, Gilbert Greub, Timothy J. Harrison, Rodney M. Ratcliff, and Didier Raoult

Legionella drancourtii sp. nov., a strictly intracellular amoebal pathogen
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 699-703. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gundlapalli S. N. Reddy, Genki I. Matsumoto, Peter Schumann, Erko Stackebrandt, and Sisinthy Shivaji

Psychrophilic pseudomonads from Antarctica: Pseudomonas antarctica sp. nov., Pseudomonas meridiana sp. nov. and Pseudomonas proteolytica sp. nov.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 713-719. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary tables]  

Jorge Quillaguamán, Rajni Hatti-Kaul, Bo Mattiasson, Maria Teresa Alvarez, and Osvaldo Delgado

Halomonas boliviensis sp. nov., an alkalitolerant, moderate halophile isolated from soil around a Bolivian hypersaline lake
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 721-725. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary table and figures]  

M. José Martínez-Cánovas, Emilia Quesada, Inmaculada Llamas, and Victoria Béjar

Halomonas ventosae sp. nov., a moderately halophilic, denitrifying, exopolysaccharide-producing bacterium
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 733-737. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Henrik Christensen, Magne Bisgaard, Bent Aalbæk, and John Elmerdahl Olsen

Reclassification of Bisgaard taxon 33, with proposal of Volucribacter psittacicida gen. nov., sp. nov. and Volucribacter amazonae sp. nov. as new members of the Pasteurellaceae
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 813-818. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ying Li, Yoshiaki Kawamura, Nagatoshi Fujiwara, Takashi Naka, Hongsheng Liu, Xinxiang Huang, Kazuo Kobayashi, and Takayuki Ezaki

Sphingomonas yabuuchiae sp. nov. and Brevundimonas nasdae sp. nov., isolated from the Russian space laboratory Mir
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 819-825. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [DNA-DNA hybridization results]  

Tomoo Sawabe, Karin Hayashi, Jun Moriwaki, Fabiano L. Thompson, Jean Swings, Philippe Potin, Richard Christen, and Yoshio Ezura

Vibrio gallicus sp. nov., isolated from the gut of the French abalone Haliotis tuberculata
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 843-846. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary table]  

Alvaro Peix, Raúl Rivas, Ignacio Santa-Regina, Pedro F. Mateos, Eustoquio Martínez-Molina, Claudino Rodríguez-Barrueco, and Encarna Velázquez

Pseudomonas lutea sp. nov., a novel phosphate-solubilizing bacterium isolated from the rhizosphere of grasses
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 847-850. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Wan-Taek Im, Hee-Sung Bae, Akira Yokota, and Sung Taik Lee

Herbaspirillum chlorophenolicum sp. nov., a 4-chlorophenol-degrading bacterium
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 851-855. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figure and table]  

Wietse de Boer, Johan H. J. Leveau, George A. Kowalchuk, Paulien J. A. Klein Gunnewiek, Edwin C. A. Abeln, Marian J. Figge, Klaas Sjollema, Jaap D. Janse, and Johannes A. van Veen

Collimonas fungivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a chitinolytic soil bacterium with the ability to grow on living fungal hyphae
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 857-864. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figure]  

Shun-ichi Yamashita, Tai Uchimura, and Kazuo Komagata

Emendation of the genus Acidomonas Urakami, Tamaoka, Suzuki and Komagata 1989
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 865-870. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yasuhiro Tanaka, Satoshi Hanada, Akira Manome, Takayasu Tsuchida, Ryuichiro Kurane, Kazunori Nakamura, and Yoichi Kamagata

Catellibacterium nectariphilum gen. nov., sp. nov., which requires a diffusible compound from a strain related to the genus Sphingomonas for vigorous growth
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 955-959. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Extended 16S rDNA-based tree]  

NEW TAXA: Other Bacteria:

Jae Hak Sohn, Jung-Hyun Lee, Hana Yi, Jongsik Chun, Kyung Sook Bae, Tae-Young Ahn, and Sang-Jin Kim

Kordia algicida gen. nov., sp. nov., an algicidal bacterium isolated from red tide
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 675-680. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Erratum]  

Denis I. Nikitin, Carsten Strömpl, M. S. Oranskaya, and Wolf-Rainer Abraham

Phylogeny of the ring-forming bacterium Arcicella aquatica gen. nov., sp. nov. (ex Nikitin et al. 1994), from a freshwater neuston biofilm
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 681-684. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Elena P. Ivanova, Yulia V. Alexeeva, Sébastien Flavier, Jonathan P. Wright, Natalia V. Zhukova, Natalia M. Gorshkova, Valery V. Mikhailov, Dan V. Nicolau, and Richard Christen

Formosa algae gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member of the family Flavobacteriaceae
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 705-711. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mitsuo Sakamoto, Masahito Suzuki, Yi Huang, Makoto Umeda, Isao Ishikawa, and Yoshimi Benno

Prevotella shahii sp. nov. and Prevotella salivae sp. nov., isolated from the human oral cavity
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 877-883. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary tables and figure]  

Stuart P. Donachie, John P. Bowman, and Maqsudul Alam

Psychroflexus tropicus sp. nov., an obligately halophilic Cytophaga–Flavobacterium–Bacteroides group bacterium from an Hawaiian hypersaline lake
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 935-940. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dunja Manal Abou-Zeid, Hanno Biebl, Cathrin Spröer, and Rolf-Joachim Müller

Propionispora hippei sp. nov., a novel Gram-negative, spore-forming anaerobe that produces propionic acid
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 951-954. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Einat Zchori-Fein, Steve J. Perlman, Suzanne E. Kelly, Nurit Katzir, and Martha S. Hunter

Characterization of a ‘Bacteroidetes’ symbiont in Encarsia wasps (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae): proposal of ‘Candidatus Cardinium hertigii’
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 961-968. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

NEW TAXA: Unicellular Eukaryotes:

Wouter J. Middelhoven, Gloria Scorzetti, and Jack W. Fell

Systematics of the anamorphic basidiomycetous yeast genus Trichosporon Behrend with the description of five novel species: Trichosporon vadense, T. smithiae, T. dehoogii, T. scarabaeorum and T. gamsii
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 975-986. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figure and key]  

José Paulo Sampaio, João Inácio, Álvaro Fonseca, Mário Gadanho, Isabel Spencer-Martins, Gloria Scorzetti, and Jack W. Fell

Auriculibuller fuscus gen. nov., sp. nov. and Bullera japonica sp. nov., novel taxa in the Tremellales
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 987-993. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jack W. Fell and Gloria Scorzetti

Reassignment of the basidiomycetous yeasts Trichosporon pullulans to Guehomyces pullulans gen. nov., comb. nov. and Hyalodendron lignicola to Trichosporon lignicola comb. nov.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 995-998. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

EVOLUTION, PHYLOGENY AND BIODIVERSITY:

Niels Nørskov-Lauritsen, Henrik Christensen, Henrik Okkels, Mogens Kilian, and Brita Bruun

Delineation of the genus Actinobacillus by comparison of partial infB sequences
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 635-644. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [infB sequence similarity]  

Tiina P. Mikkonen, Rauni I. Kärenlampi, and Marja-Liisa Hänninen

Phylogenetic analysis of gastric and enterohepatic Helicobacter species based on partial HSP60 gene sequences
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 753-758. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Erratum]  

Ilona Oksanen, Katileena Lohtander, Kaarina Sivonen, and Jouko Rikkinen

Repeat-type distribution in trnL intron does not correspond with species phylogeny: comparison of the genetic markers 16S rRNA and trnL intron in heterocystous cyanobacteria
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 765-772. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Tables and Figure]  

Hanno Teeling, Thierry Lombardot, Margarete Bauer, Wolfgang Ludwig, and Frank Oliver Glöckner

Evaluation of the phylogenetic position of the planctomycete ‘Rhodopirellula baltica’ SH 1 by means of concatenated ribosomal protein sequences, DNA-directed RNA polymerase subunit sequences and whole genome trees
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 791-801. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Strain details]  

Matthias Wolf, Tobias Müller, Thomas Dandekar, and J. Dennis Pollack

Phylogeny of Firmicutes with special reference to Mycoplasma (Mollicutes) as inferred from phosphoglycerate kinase amino acid sequence data
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 871-875. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gail E. Gasparich, Robert F. Whitcomb, Deborah Dodge, Frank E. French, John Glass, and David L. Williamson

The genus Spiroplasma and its non-helical descendants: phylogenetic classification, correlation with phenotype and roots of the Mycoplasma mycoides clade
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 893-918. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary tables]  

C. C. Thompson, F. L. Thompson, K. Vandemeulebroecke, B. Hoste, P. Dawyndt, and J. Swings

Use of recA as an alternative phylogenetic marker in the family Vibrionaceae
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 919-924. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON SYSTEMATICS OF PROKARYOTES: Taxonomic Notes:

Tian-shen Tao, Ying-yu Yue, Wen-xin Chen, and Wen-feng Chen

Proposal of Nakamurella gen. nov. as a substitute for the bacterial genus Microsphaera Yoshimi et al. 1996 and Nakamurellaceae fam. nov. as a substitute for the illegitimate bacterial family Microsphaeraceae Rainey et al. 1997
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 999-1000. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON SYSTEMATICS OF PROKARYOTES: Minutes:

J. F. Imhoff and M. T. Madigan

International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of phototrophic bacteria. Minutes of the meetings, 27 August 2003, Tokyo, Japan
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004 54: 1001-1003. [Full Text] [PDF] [Erratum]  

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