Genus Gilvimarinus
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Number of species, including synonyms, cited in this file: 3
Number of subspecies, including synonyms, cited in this file: 0
Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").
Gilvimarinus Du et al. 2009, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Gilvimarinus chinensis Du et al. 2009.
Etymology: L. adj. gilvus, faint yellow; L. adj. marinus, of or belonging to the sea, marine; N.L. masc. n. Gilvimarinus, a bacterium belonging to or living in the Yellow Sea.
Valid publication: DU (Z.J.), ZHANG (D.C.), LIU (S.N.), CHEN (J.X.), TIAN (X.L.), ZHANG (Z.N.), LIU (H.C.) and CHEN (G.J.): Gilvimarinus chinensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an agar-digesting marine bacterium within the class Gammaproteobacteria isolated from coastal seawater in Qingdao, China. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2009, 59, 2987-2990.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Note: The gender of the generic name Gilvimarinus is not given in the paper by Du et al. 2009. According to Rule 65(2), the name Gilvimarinus must be in the masculine gender.
→ Gilvimarinus Du et al. 2009 emend. Cheng et al. 2015.
Reference: CHENG, H., ZHANG, S., HUO, Y.-Y., JIANG, X.-W., ZHANG, X.-Q., PAN, J., ZHU, X.-F. and WU, M. 2015. Gilvimarinus polysaccharolyticus sp. nov., an agar-digesting bacterium isolated from seaweed, and emended description of the genus Gilvimarinus. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 65, 562-569
Original article.
Gilvimarinus chinensis Du et al. 2009, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) QM42 = CGMCC 1.7008 = DSM 19667.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: DQ822530.
Etymology: N.L. masc. adj. chinensis pertaining to China, where the type strain was isolated.
Valid publication: DU (Z.J.), ZHANG (D.C.), LIU (S.N.), CHEN (J.X.), TIAN (X.L.), ZHANG (Z.N.), LIU (H.C.) and CHEN (G.J.): Gilvimarinus chinensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an agar-digesting marine bacterium within the class Gammaproteobacteria isolated from coastal seawater in Qingdao, China. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2009, 59, 2987-2990.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Gilvimarinus japonicus Kouzui et al. 2016, sp. nov.
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) 12-2=NBRC 111987=KCTC 52141.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: LC125208.
Whole-genome sequence accession no. for the type strain: .
Etymology: N.L. masc. adj. japonicus, Japanese, pertaining to the Sea of Japan, where the type strain was isolated.
Source: Environmental - marine.
Valid publication: KOUZUI, H., TOKIKAWA, K., SATOMI, M., NEGORO, T., SHIMABUKURO, K. and FUJII, K. 2016. Gilvimarinus japonicus sp. nov., a cellulolytic and agarolytic marine bacterium isolated from coastal debris. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 66, 5417-5423.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Gilvimarinus polysaccharolyticus Cheng et al. 2015, sp. nov.
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) YN3=KCTC 32438=JCM 19198.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: HM437226.
Etymology: Gr. adj. polus, many; Gr. n. saccharon, sugar; N.L. masc. adj. lyticus, from Gr. adj. lutikos -ê -on able to loosen, able to dissolve; N.L. masc. adj. polysaccharolyticus, pertaining to the ability to hydrolyse polysaccharides.
Source: Plant.
Valid publication: CHENG, H., ZHANG, S., HUO, Y.-Y., JIANG, X.-W., ZHANG, X.-Q., PAN, J., ZHU, X.-F. and WU, M. 2015. Gilvimarinus polysaccharolyticus sp. nov., an agar-digesting bacterium isolated from seaweed, and emended description of the genus Gilvimarinus. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 65, 562-569
Original article in IJSEM Online