NOTIFICATION LIST:

NEW TAXA: Archaea:

Michelle A. Allen, Falicia Goh, Stefan Leuko, Akinobu Echigo, Toru Mizuki, Ron Usami, Masahiro Kamekura, Brett A. Neilan, and Brendan P. Burns

Haloferax elongans sp. nov. and Haloferax mucosum sp. nov., isolated from microbial mats from Hamelin Pool, Shark Bay, Australia
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 798-802. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figures]  

Koji Mori, Akihiko Maruyama, Tetsuro Urabe, Ken-ichiro Suzuki, and Satoshi Hanada

Archaeoglobus infectus sp. nov., a novel thermophilic, chemolithoheterotrophic archaeon isolated from a deep-sea rock collected at Suiyo Seamount, Izu-Bonin Arc, western Pacific Ocean
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 810-816. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kristen N. Savage, Lee R. Krumholz, Aharon Oren, and Mostafa S. Elshahed

Halosarcina pallida gen. nov., sp. nov., a halophilic archaeon from a low-salt, sulfide-rich spring
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 856-860. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figure]  

Sanae Sakai, Hiroyuki Imachi, Satoshi Hanada, Akiyoshi Ohashi, Hideki Harada, and Yoichi Kamagata

Methanocella paludicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a methane-producing archaeon, the first isolate of the lineage ‘Rice Cluster I’, and proposal of the new archaeal order Methanocellales ord. nov.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 929-936. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

NEW TAXA: Actinobacteria:

P. Mattarelli, C. Bonaparte, B. Pot, and B. Biavati

Proposal to reclassify the three biotypes of Bifidobacterium longum as three subspecies: Bifidobacterium longum subsp. longum subsp. nov., Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis comb. nov. and Bifidobacterium longum subsp. suis comb. nov.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 767-772. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dong Wan Lee and Soon Dong Lee

Tessaracoccus flavescens sp. nov., isolated from marine sediment
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 785-789. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figure and Table]  

Soon Dong Lee, Sang Kyu Park, Yoe-Won Yun, and Dong Wan Lee

Saxeibacter lacteus gen. nov., sp. nov., an actinobacterium isolated from rock
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 906-909. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figure and Table]  

Suchada Jongrungruangchok, Somboon Tanasupawat, and Takuji Kudo

Micromonospora chaiyaphumensis sp. nov., isolated from Thai soils
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 924-928. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  

Dong Wan Lee and Soon Dong Lee

Aeromicrobium ponti sp. nov., isolated from seawater
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 987-991. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  

Ivone Vaz-Moreira, M. Fernanda Nobre, António C. Silva Ferreira, Peter Schumann, Olga C. Nunes, and Célia M. Manaia

Humibacter albus gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from sewage sludge compost
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 1014-1018. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Atsuko Matsumoto, Mayuko Yamada, Satoshi Omura, and Yoko Takahashi

Microterricola viridarii gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Microbacteriaceae
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 1019-1023. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figure]  

Zsuzsanna Kiss, Alan C. Ward, Zsuzsanna Birkó, Keith F. Chater, and Sándor Biró

Streptomyces griseus 45H, a producer of the extracellular autoregulator protein factor C, is a member of the species Streptomyces albidoflavus
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 1029-1031. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

NEW TAXA: Other Gram-positive Bacteria:

Anna H. Kaksonen, Stefan Spring, Peter Schumann, Reiner M. Kroppenstedt, and Jaakko A. Puhakka

Desulfotomaculum alcoholivorax sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic, spore-forming, sulfate-reducer isolated from a fluidized-bed reactor treating acidic metal- and sulfate-containing wastewater
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 833-838. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andrea K. Borsodi, Károly Márialigeti, Gitta Szabó, Márton Palatinszky, Beatrix Pollák, Zsuzsa Kéki, Attila L. Kovács, Peter Schumann, and Erika M. Tóth

Bacillus aurantiacus sp. nov., an alkaliphilic and moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from Hungarian soda lakes
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 845-851. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Table]  

G. B. Slobodkina, T. V. Kolganova, T. P. Tourova, N. A. Kostrikina, C. Jeanthon, E. A. Bonch-Osmolovskaya, and A. I. Slobodkin

Clostridium tepidiprofundi sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic bacterium from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 852-855. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ida Romano, Ilaria Finore, Giancarlo Nicolaus, F. Javier Huertas, Licia Lama, Barbara Nicolaus, and Annarita Poli

Halobacillus alkaliphilus sp. nov., a halophilic bacterium isolated from a salt lake in Fuente de Piedra, southern Spain
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 886-890. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figures]  

A. I. Vela, A. Fernandez, A. Espinosade los Monteros, J. Goyache, P. Herraez, B. Tames, F. Cruz, L. Domínguez, and J. F. Fernández-Garayzábal

Lactobacillus ceti sp. nov., isolated from beaked whales (Ziphius cavirostris)
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 891-894. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Isao Yumoto, Kikue Hirota, Yoshinobu Nodasaka, Yutaka Tokiwa, and Kenji Nakajima

Alkalibacterium indicireducens sp. nov., an obligate alkaliphile that reduces indigo dye
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 901-905. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Table]  

Miia Jakava-Viljanen, Anna Murros, Airi Palva, and Katri Johanna Björkroth

Lactobacillus sobrius Konstantinov et al. 2006 is a later synonym of Lactobacillus amylovorus Nakamura 1981
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 910-913. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  

Akihito Endo, Stefan Roos, Eiichi Satoh, Hidetoshi Morita, and Sanae Okada

Lactobacillus equigenerosi sp. nov., a coccoid species isolated from faeces of thoroughbred racehorses
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 914-918. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figures]  

René Cerritos, Pablo Vinuesa, Luis E. Eguiarte, Luis Herrera-Estrella, Luis D. Alcaraz-Peraza, Jackeline L. Arvizu-Gómez, Gabriela Olmedo, Enrique Ramirez, Janet L. Siefert, and Valeria Souza

Bacillus coahuilensis sp. nov., a moderately halophilic species from a desiccation lagoon in the Cuatro Ciénegas Valley in Coahuila, Mexico
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 919-923. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  

Hatsumi Shiratori, Hitomi Ohiwa, Hironori Ikeno, Shohei Ayame, Naoaki Kataoka, Akiko Miya, Teruhiko Beppu, and Kenji Ueda

Lutispora thermophila gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, spore-forming bacterium isolated from a thermophilic methanogenic bioreactor digesting municipal solid wastes
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 964-969. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hiroshi Sakon, Fumiko Nagai, Masami Morotomi, and Ryuichiro Tanaka

Sutterella parvirubra sp. nov. and Megamonas funiformis sp. nov., isolated from human faeces
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 970-975. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figure]  

NEW TAXA: Proteobacteria:

Luciana Albuquerque, Fred A. Rainey, M. Fernanda Nobre, and Milton S. da Costa

Elioraea tepidiphila gen. nov., sp. nov., a slightly thermophilic member of the Alphaproteobacteria
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 773-778. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figure and Table][Erratum]  

Vicky Merhej, Toïdi Adékambi, Isabelle Pagnier, Didier Raoult, and Michel Drancourt

Yersinia massiliensis sp. nov., isolated from fresh water
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 779-784. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figures]  

Carmen M. González-Domenech, Fernando Martínez-Checa, Emilia Quesada, and Victoria Béjar

Halomonas cerina sp. nov., a moderately halophilic, denitrifying, exopolysaccharide-producing bacterium
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 803-809. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figure]  

Hak Jun Kim, Soyoung Park, Jung Min Lee, Seungil Park, Woongsic Jung, Jae-Shin Kang, Hyung Min Joo, Ki-Won Seo, and Sung-Ho Kang

Moritella dasanensis sp. nov., a psychrophilic bacterium isolated from the Arctic ocean
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 817-820. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figures]  

T. S. Sasi Jyothsna, Ch. Sasikala, and Ch. V. Ramana

Desulfovibrio psychrotolerans sp. nov., a psychrotolerant and moderately alkaliphilic sulfate-reducing deltaproteobacterium from the Himalayas
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 821-825. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figure]  

Daisuke Suzuki, Atsuko Ueki, Aya Amaishi, and Katsuji Ueki

Desulfoluna butyratoxydans gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel Gram-negative, butyrate-oxidizing, sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from an estuarine sediment in Japan
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 826-832. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

N. Ramesh Kumar, Sudha Nair, Stefan Langer, Hans-Jürgen Busse, and Peter Kämpfer

Altererythrobacter indicus sp. nov., isolated from wild rice (Porteresia coarctata Tateoka)
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 839-844. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mukesh Kumar, Mansi Verma, and Rup Lal

Devosia chinhatensis sp. nov., isolated from a hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) dump site in India
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 861-865. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Masayuki Miyazaki, Yuichi Nogi, Yoshihiro Fujiwara, Masaru Kawato, Kaoru Kubokawa, and Koki Horikoshi

Neptunomonas japonica sp. nov., an Osedax japonicus symbiont-like bacterium isolated from sediment adjacent to sperm whale carcasses off Kagoshima, Japan
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 866-871. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Carmen M. González-Domenech, Victoria Béjar, Fernando Martínez-Checa, and Emilia Quesada

Halomonas nitroreducens sp. nov., a novel nitrate- and nitrite-reducing species
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 872-876. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figures]  

Chiu-Chung Young, A. B. Arun, Wei-An Lai, Wen-Ming Chen, Jiu-Hsing Chao, Fo-Ting Shen, P. D. Rekha, and Peter Kämpfer

Chromobacterium aquaticum sp. nov., isolated from spring water samples
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 877-880. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Wung Yang Shieh, Tung Yen Liu, Silk Yu Lin, Wen Dar Jean, and Jwo-Sheng Chen

Simiduia agarivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine, agarolytic bacterium isolated from shallow coastal water from Keelung, Taiwan
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 895-900. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figure]  

Mario Vaneechoutte, Thierry De Baere, Alexandr Nemec, Martin Musílek, Tanny J. K. van der Reijden, and Lenie Dijkshoorn

Reclassification of Acinetobacter grimontii Carr et al. 2003 as a later synonym of Acinetobacter junii Bouvet and Grimont 1986
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 937-940. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jui-Hsing Chou, Sing-Rong Jiang, Jang-Cheon Cho, Jaeho Song, Mei-Chun Lin, and Wen-Ming Chen

Azonexus hydrophilus sp. nov., a nifH gene-harbouring bacterium isolated from freshwater
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 946-951. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figures]  

Lisa D. Sprague, Holger C. Scholz, Sabine Amann, H.-J. Busse, and Heinrich Neubauer

Yersinia similis sp. nov.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 952-958. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Table]  

C. C. Young, H. Hupfer, C. Siering, M.-J. Ho, A. B. Arun, W.-A. Lai, P. D. Rekha, F.-T. Shen, M.-H. Hung, W.-M. Chen, and A. F. Yassin

Azospirillum rugosum sp. nov., isolated from oil-contaminated soil
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 959-963. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Erika M. Tóth, Peter Schumann, Andrea K. Borsodi, Zsuzsa Kéki, Attila L. Kovács, and Károly Márialigeti

Wohlfahrtiimonas chitiniclastica gen. nov., sp. nov., a new gammaproteobacterium isolated from Wohlfahrtia magnifica (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 976-981. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figures]  

NEW TAXA: Bacteroidetes:

Huan Liu, Rui Liu, Shou-Yun Yang, Wei-Kai Gao, Chong-Xing Zhang, Ke-Yun Zhang, and Ren Lai

Flavobacterium anhuiense sp. nov., isolated from field soil
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 756-760. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figure]  

Jih-Terng Wang, Yi-Ju Chou, Jui-Hsing Chou, Chaolun Allen Chen, and Wen-Ming Chen

Tenacibaculum aiptasiae sp. nov., isolated from a sea anemone Aiptasia pulchella
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 761-766. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Tables and Figure]  

Tristan Barbeyron, Flavien Carpentier, Stéphane L'Haridon, Margarete Schüler, Gurvan Michel, and Rudolf Amann

Description of Maribacter forsetii sp. nov., a marine Flavobacteriaceae isolated from North Sea water, and emended description of the genus Maribacter
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 790-797. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figure]  

Maximino Piñeiro-Vidal, Cristina G. Carballas, Oscar Gómez-Barreiro, Ana Riaza, and Ysabel Santos

Tenacibaculum soleae sp. nov., isolated from diseased sole (Solea senegalensis Kaup)
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 881-885. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kyoung-Ho Kim, Wan-Taek Im, and Sung-Taik Lee

Hymenobacter soli sp. nov., isolated from grass soil
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 941-945. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jaewoo Yoon, Yoshihide Matsuo, Hiroaki Kasai, and Akira Yokota

Limibacter armeniacum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel representative of the family ‘Flammeovirgaceae’ isolated from marine sediment
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 982-986. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Table]  

Christophe Chassard, Eve Delmas, Paul A. Lawson, and Annick Bernalier-Donadille

Bacteroides xylanisolvens sp. nov., a xylan-degrading bacterium isolated from human faeces
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 1008-1013. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Elionora Hantsis-Zacharov, Yigal Senderovich, and Malka Halpern

Chryseobacterium bovis sp. nov., isolated from raw cow's milk
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 1024-1028. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figure]  

NEW TAXA: Eukaryotic Micro-organisms:

Giancarlo Perrone, János Varga, Antonia Susca, Jens C. Frisvad, Gaetano Stea, Sándor Kocsubé, Beáta Tóth, Zofia Kozakiewicz, and Robert A. Samson

Aspergillus uvarum sp. nov., an uniseriate black Aspergillus species isolated from grapes in Europe
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 1032-1039. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figures]  

Takahiko Nagahama, Mohamed Ahmed Abdel-Wahab, Yuichi Nogi, Masayuki Miyazaki, Katsuyuki Uematsu, Makiko Hamamoto, and Koki Horikoshi

Dipodascus tetrasporeus sp. nov., an ascosporogenous yeast isolated from deep-sea sediments in the Japan Trench
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 1040-1046. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

NEW TAXA: Other Bacteria:

Jaewoo Yoon, Yoshihide Matsuo, Satoru Matsuda, Kyoko Adachi, Hiroaki Kasai, and Akira Yokota

Rubritalea sabuli sp. nov., a carotenoid- and squalene-producing member of the family Verrucomicrobiaceae, isolated from marine sediment
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 992-997. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jaewoo Yoon, Yoshihide Matsuo, Kyoko Adachi, Midori Nozawa, Satoru Matsuda, Hiroaki Kasai, and Akira Yokota

Description of Persicirhabdus sediminis gen. nov., sp. nov., Roseibacillus ishigakijimensis gen. nov., sp. nov., Roseibacillus ponti sp. nov., Roseibacillus persicicus sp. nov., Luteolibacter pohnpeiensis gen. nov., sp. nov. and Luteolibacter algae sp. nov., six marine members of the phylum ‘Verrucomicrobia’, and emended descriptions of the class Verrucomicrobiae, the order Verrucomicrobiales and the family Verrucomicrobiaceae
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 998-1007. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Tables]  

EVOLUTION, PHYLOGENY AND BIODIVERSITY:

Andreas Leclerque and Regina G. Kleespies

16S rRNA-, GroEL- and MucZ-based assessment of the taxonomic position of ‘Rickettsiella melolonthae’ and its implications for the organization of the genus Rickettsiella
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008 58: 749-755. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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