Description of New Taxa of Prokaryotes: A Decadal Work in India
Keywords:
Taxonomic Description; Prokaryotes; Bacteria; India; Research Institutions
Abstract
The taxonomic description of novel taxa of prokaryotes from India in the (2006-2016) decade was reviewed. In all 332 new
species descriptions according to “bacteriological code” are there from India since 2006. These descriptions are based on
strains isolated from India and also from outside India. During this period, all the new taxa described belong to the domain
Bacteria with no representation from the domain Archaea. The major habitats studied include soil, marine sediments, water
samples from fresh and marine sources with specimens and insects also being explored. The species belonging to phyla
Proteobacteria was majorly described. Universities are the major centres for research leading to new taxa descriptions and
more and more groups are contributing to description of novel taxa of prokaryotes.
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Microbiol 65 2403-9
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phototroph from the Indian Himalayas possessing a wide
temperature range for growth Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 58
1792-1796
Azmatunnisa M, Rahul K, Subhash Y, Sasikala Ch and Ramana
Ch V (2015) Bacillus oleivorans sp. nov., a diesel oildegrading and solvent-tolerant bacterium Int J Syst Evol
Microbiol 65 1310-1315
Begum Z, Srinivas T N, Manasa P, Sailaja B, Sunil B, Prasad S
and Shivaji S (2013) Winogradskyella psychrotolerans sp.
nov., a marine bacterium of the family Flavobacteriaceae
isolated from Arctic sediment Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 63
1646-1652
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nov., a psychrophilic bacterium from the Hamta glacier of
the Himalayan mountain ranges of India Int J Syst Evol
Microbiol 562 765-2770
Divyasree B, Lakshmi K V, Bharti D, Sasikala Ch and Ramana Ch
V (2015) Caenispirillum deserti sp. nov., a spheroplastforming bacterium isolated from a salt desert Int J Syst
Evol Microbiol 65 3119-3124
Divyasree B, Lakshmi K V, Bharti D, Sasikala Ch and Ramana Ch
(2016) Rhodovulum aestuarii sp. nov., isolated from a
brackish water body Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 66 165-171
Gupta P, Chaturvedi P, Pradhan S, Delille D and Shivaji S (2006)
Marinomonas polaris sp. nov., a psychro-halotolerant
strain isolated from coastal sea water off the sub-Antarctic
Kerguelen islands Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 56 361-364
Jha B, Kumar Singh V, Weiss A, Hartmann A and Schmid M
(2015) Zhihengliuella somnathii sp. nov., a halotolerant
actinobacterium from the rhizosphere of a halophyte
Salicornia brachiate Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 65 3137-
3142
Kadam PC, Ranade DR, Mandelco L and Boone DR (1994)
Isolation and characterization of Methanolobus
bombayensis sp. nov., a methylotrophic methanogen that
requires high concentrations of divalent cations Int J
SystBacteriol 44 603-607
Kaur C, Kaur I, Raichand R, Bora TC and Mayilraj S (2011)
Description of a novel actinobacterium Kocuria assamensis sp. nov., isolated from a water sample collected from the
river Brahmaputra, Assam, India Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
99 721-726
Kaur S, Yawar M, Kumar P A and Suresh K (2014) Hungatella
effluvii gen. nov., sp. nov., an obligately anaerobic bacterium
isolated from an effluent treatment plant, and
reclassification of Clostridium hathewayi as Hungatella
hathewayi gen. nov., comb. nov Int J Syst Evol Microbiol
64 710-718
Keshari N, Kumar Das S and Adhikary SP (2016)
Schmidleinemasantini ketanense sp. nov. (Cyanobacteria/
Cyanoprokaryota) from a building facade in Santiniketan,
India Phytotaxa 283 181-187
Anil Kumar P, Srinivas TNR, Sasikala Ch and Ramana Ch V
(2007) Rhodobacter changlensis sp. nov., a
psychrotolerant, phototrophic alpha proteobacterium
from the Himalayas of India Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 57
2568-71
Kumar M, Verma M, and Lal R (2008) Devosia chinhatensis sp.
nov., isolated from a hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) dump
site in India Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 58 861-865
Anil Kumar P, Naga Radha Srinivas T, Sasikala C, VenkataRamana
C, Süling J and Imhoff J (2009) Prosthecochloris indica
sp. nov., a novel green sulfur bacterium from a marine
aquaculture pond, Kakinada, India J Gen Appl Microbiol
55 163-9
Anil Kumar P, Srinivas TN, Madhu S, Sravan R, Singh S, Naqvi
SW, Mayilraj S and Shivaji S (2011) Cecembia lonarensis
gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel haloalkalitolerant bacterium of
the family Cyclobacteriaceae, isolated from a haloalkaline
lake and emended descriptions of the genera Indibacter,
Nitritalea, Belliella and Aquiflexum Int J Syst Evol Microbiol
61 1762
Lakshmi KV, Sasikala Ch, Ramaprasad EV and Ramana Ch V
(2013) Rhodospirillum oryzae sp. nov., a phototrophic
bacterium isolated from rhizosphere soil of paddy Int J
Syst Evol Microbiol 63 3050-5
Logan NA, Berge O, Bishop AH, Busse HJ, De Vos P, Fritze D,
Heyndrickx M, Kämpfer P, Rabinovitch L, SalkinojaSalonen MS, Seldin L and Ventosa A (2009) Proposed
minimal standards for describing new taxa of aerobic,
endospore-forming bacteria Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 59
2114-21
Malhotra J, Shailly A, Jindal S, Rajagopal R and Lal R (2012)
Acinetobacter indicus sp. nov., isolated from a
hexachlorocyclohexane dump site Int J Syst Evol Microbiol
62 2883-2890
Mayilraj S, Saha P, Suresh K and Saini HS (2006)
Ornithinimicrobium kibberense sp. nov., isolated from the
Indian Himalayas Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 56 1657-61
Nimaichand S, Zhang YG, Cheng J, Li L, Zhang DF, Zhou EM,
Dong L, Ningthoujam DS and Li WJ (2013)
Micromonosporakangle ipakensis sp. nov., isolated from
a sample of limestone quarry Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 63
4546-51
Ningthoujam DS, Nimaichand S, Ningombam D, Tamreihao K, Li
L, Zhang YG, Cheng J, Liu MJ and Li WJ (2013)
Streptomyces muensis sp. nov. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
104 1135-41
Nupur, Vaidya B, Tanuku NR and Pinnaka AK (2013)
Albirhodobactermarinus gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of
the family Rhodobacteraceae isolated from sea shore water
of Visakhapatnam, India. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 103
347-55
Parker T, Tindall BJ and Garrity GM (2015) International Code
of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes Int J Syst Evol Microbiol
doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.000778
Pindi PK, Kishore KH, Reddy GS and Shivaji S (2009) Description
of Leifsonia kafniensissp. nov. and Leifsonia antarctica
sp. Nov Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 59 1348-52
Singh P, Minj RA, Kunui K, Shaikh ZM, Suradkar S, Shouche
YS, Mishra AK and Singh SS (2016) A new species of
Scytonema isolated from Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India
Journal of Systematics and Evolution 54 519-527
Singh P, Shaikh ZM, Gaysina LA, Suradkar A, and Samanta U
(2016) New species of Nostoc (cyanobacteria) isolated
from Pune, India, using morphological, ecological and
molecular attributes Plant Syst Evol 3 1381-1394
Rahul K, Azmatunnisa M, Sasikala Ch and Ramana Ch V (2015)
Hoeflea olei sp. nov., a diesel-oil-degrading, anoxygenic,
phototrophic bacterium isolated from backwaters and
emended description of the genus Hoeflea Int J Syst Evol
Microbiol 65 2403-9
Rameshkumar N, Fukui Y, Sawabe T and Nair S (2008) Vibrio
porteresiae sp. nov., a diazotrophic bacterium isolated
from a mangrove-associated wild rice (Porteresiacoarctata
Tateoka) Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 58 1608-15
Ramaprasad EV, Bharti D, Sasikala Ch and Ramana Ch V (2015)
Zooshikella marina sp. nov.acycloprodigiosin- and
prodigiosin-producing marine bacterium isolated from
beach sand Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 65 4669-73
Saha P and Chakrabarti T (2006) Emticiciaoligotrophica gen.
nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family
‘Flexibacteraceae’, phylum Bacteroidetes Int J Syst Evol
Microbiol 56 991-5....
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