Genus Echinicola
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Number of species, including synonyms, cited in this file: 5
Number of subspecies, including synonyms, cited in this file: 0
Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").
For a detailed description of this taxon see Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria (BMSAB).
Echinicola Nedashkovskaya et al. 2006, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Echinicola pacifica Nedashkovskaya et al. 2006.
Etymology: L. masc. n. echinus, sea urchin; L. suff. -cola (derived from L. masc. or fem. n. incola), a dweller; N.L. fem. n. Echinicola, a sea-urchin dweller.
Valid publication: NEDASHKOVSKAYA (O.I.), KIM (S.B.), VANCANNEYT (M.), LYSENKO (A.M.), SHIN (D.S.), PARK (M.S.), LEE (K.H.), JUNG (W.J.), KALINOVSKAYA (N.I.), MIKHAILOV (V.V.), BAE (K.S.) and SWINGS (J.): Echinicola pacifica gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel flexibacterium isolated from the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus intermedius. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2006, 56, 953-958.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Echinicola jeungdonensis Kim et al. 2011, sp. nov.
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) HMD3054 = CECT 7682 = KCTC 23122.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: GU339180.
Etymology: N.L. fem. adj. jeungdonensis, of or belonging to island Jeungdo, Korea, from where the type strain was isolated.
Valid publication: KIM (H.), JOUNG (Y.), AHN (T.S.) and JOH (K.): Echinicola jeungdonensis sp. nov., isolated from a solar saltern. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2011, 61, 2065-2068.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Echinicola pacifica Nedashkovskaya et al. 2006, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) KCTC 12368 = KMM 6172 = LMG 23350.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: DQ185611.
Etymology: L. fem. adj. pacifica, pacific, and by extension referring to the Pacific Ocean, from which the type strain was isolated.
Valid publication: NEDASHKOVSKAYA (O.I.), KIM (S.B.), VANCANNEYT (M.), LYSENKO (A.M.), SHIN (D.S.), PARK (M.S.), LEE (K.H.), JUNG (W.J.), KALINOVSKAYA (N.I.), MIKHAILOV (V.V.), BAE (K.S.) and SWINGS (J.): Echinicola pacifica gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel flexibacterium isolated from the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus intermedius. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2006, 56, 953-958.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Echinicola rosea Liang et al. 2016, sp. nov.
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) JL3085=NBRC 111782=CGMCC 1.15407.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: KT989434.
Whole-genome sequence accession no. for the type strain: .
Etymology: L. fem. adj. rosea, pink.
Source: Environmental - marine.
Valid publication: LIANG, P., SUN, J., LI, H., LIU, M., XUE, Z. and ZHANG, Y. 2016. Echinicola rosea sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from surface seawater. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 66, 3299-3304.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Echinicola sediminis Lee et al. 2017, sp. nov.
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) 001-Na2=KCTC 52495=JCM 31786=DSM 103729.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: KX774280.
Etymology: L. gen. n. sediminis, of a sediment, referring to the source from which the type strain was isolated.
Source: Environmental - marine.
Valid publication: LEE, D. W., LEE, A. H., LEE, H., KIM, J. J., KHIM, J. S., YIM, U. H. and KIM, B. S. 2017. Echinicola sediminis sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from coastal sediment. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 67, 3351-3357.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Echinicola vietnamensis Nedashkovskaya et al. 2007, sp. nov.
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) DSM 17526 = KMM 6221 = LMG 23754.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: AM406795.
Etymology: N.L. fem. adj. vietnamensis, of or belonging to Vietnam, the country of origin of the type strain.
Valid publication: NEDASHKOVSKAYA (O.I.), KIM (S.B.), HOSTE (B.), SHIN (D.S.), BELENEVA (I.A.), VANCANNEYT (M.) and MIKHAILOV (V.V.): Echinicola vietnamensis sp. nov., a member of the phylum Bacteroidetes isolated from seawater. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2007, 57, 761-763.
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