Genus Octadecabacter
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Number of species, including synonyms, cited in this file: 6
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).
Octadecabacter Gosink et al. 1998, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Octadecabacter arcticus Gosink et al. 1998.
Etymology: Gr. n. oktô, the number eight; Gr. n. dekas, the number ten; N.L. masc. n. bacter, rod; N.L. masc. n. Octadecabacter, an 18-carbon fatty acid-containing rod.
Valid publication: Validation List no. 64. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1998, 48, 327-328.
Effective publication: GOSINK (J.J.), HERWIG (R.P.) and STALEY (J.T.): Octadecabacter arcticus gen. nov., sp. nov., and O. antarcticus, sp. nov., nonpigmented, psychrophilic gas vacuolate bacteria from polar sea ice and water. Syst. Appl. Microbiol., 1997, 20, 356-365.
Validation List no. 64 in IJSEM Online - Effective publication Online
Note: In Validation List no. 64, the title of the paper by Gosink et al. 1997 is erroneously cited as follows: Octadecabacter arcticus gen. nov., sp. nov., nonpigmented, psychrophilic gas vacuolate bacteria from polar sea ice and water.
→ Octadecabacter Gosink et al. 1998 emend. Park and Yoon 2014.
Reference: PARK, S. and YOON, J.-H. 2014. Octadecabacter jejudonensis sp. nov., isolated from the junction between the ocean and a freshwater spring and emended description of the genus Octadecabacter. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 64, 719-724.
Original article.
Octadecabacter antarcticus Gosink et al. 1998, sp. nov.
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) 307 = CIP 106731.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: U14583.
Etymology: L. masc. adj. antarcticus, southern, antarctic.
Valid publication: Validation List no. 64. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1998, 48, 327-328.
Effective publication: GOSINK (J.J.), HERWIG (R.P.) and STALEY (J.T.): Octadecabacter arcticus gen. nov., sp. nov., and O. antarcticus, sp. nov., nonpigmented, psychrophilic gas vacuolate bacteria from polar sea ice and water. Syst. Appl. Microbiol., 1997, 20, 356-365.
Validation List no. 64 in IJSEM Online - Effective publication Online
Note: In Validation List no. 64, the title of the paper by Gosink et al. 1997 is erroneously cited as follows: Octadecabacter arcticus gen. nov., sp. nov., nonpigmented, psychrophilic gas vacuolate bacteria from polar sea ice and water.
Octadecabacter arcticus Gosink et al. 1998, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) 238 = CIP 106732.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: U73725.
Etymology: L. masc. adj. arcticus, northern, arctic.
Valid publication: Validation List no. 64. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1998, 48, 327-328.
Effective publication: GOSINK (J.J.), HERWIG (R.P.) and STALEY (J.T.): Octadecabacter arcticus gen. nov., sp. nov., and O. antarcticus, sp. nov., nonpigmented, psychrophilic gas vacuolate bacteria from polar sea ice and water. Syst. Appl. Microbiol., 1997, 20, 356-365.
Validation List no. 64 in IJSEM Online - Effective publication Online
Note: In Validation List no. 64, the title of the paper by Gosink et al. 1997 is erroneously cited as follows: Octadecabacter arcticus gen. nov., sp. nov., nonpigmented, psychrophilic gas vacuolate bacteria from polar sea ice and water.
Octadecabacter ascidiaceicola Kim et al. 2016, sp. nov.
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) RA1-3=KCTC 42605=CECT 8868.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: KP998176.
Etymology: N.L. fem. n. Ascidiacea name of a zoological class; L. suff. -cola (from L. n. incola), a dweller, inhabitant; N.L. n. ascidiaceicola, Ascidiacea dweller.
Source: Animal.
Valid publication: KIM, Y. O., PARK, I. S., PARK, S., NAM, B. H., PARK, J. M., KIM, D. G. and YOON, J. H. 2016. Octadecabacter ascidiaceicola sp. nov., isolated from a sea squirt (Halocynthia roretzi). Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 66, 296-301.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Octadecabacter jejudonensis Park and Yoon 2014, sp. nov.
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) SSK2-1=KCTC 32535=CECT 8397.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: KF515220.
Whole-genome sequence accession no. for the type strain: N/A.
Etymology: N.L. masc. adj. jejudonensis, pertaining to Jeju island of South Korea, from where the type strain was isolated.
Source: Environmental - marine.
Valid publication: PARK, S. and YOON, J.-H. 2014. Octadecabacter jejudonensis sp. nov., isolated from the junction between the ocean and a freshwater spring and emended description of the genus Octadecabacter. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 64, 719-724.
Original article in IJSEM Online
→ ¤ Pseudooctadecabacter jejudonensis (Park and Yoon 2014) Billerbeck et al. 2015, comb. nov.
Octadecabacter ponticola Park et al. 2016, sp. nov.
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) HDSW-34= KCTC 52250=NBRC 112296.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: KX073749.
Whole-genome sequence accession no. for the type strain: .
Etymology: L. n. pontus, the sea; L. suff. -cola (from L. n. incola), a dweller, inhabitant; N.L. masc. n. ponticola, a dweller of sea.
Source: Environmental - marine.
Valid publication: PARK, S., YOON, S. Y., JUNG, Y. T. and YOON, J. H. 2016. Octadecabacter ponticola sp. nov., isolated from seawater. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 66, 4179-4184.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Octadecabacter temperatus Billerbeck et al. 2015, sp. nov.
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) SB1=DSM 26878=LMG 27946.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: KF836544.
Etymology: L. masc. part. adj. temperatus, moderate, referring to the isolation of the type strain from a latitude with moderate temperature.
Source: Environmental - marine.
Valid publication: BILLERBECK, S., ORCHARD, J., TINDALL, B. J., GIEBEL, H. A., BRINKHOFF, T. and SIMON, M. 2015. Description of Octadecabacter temperatus sp. nov., isolated from the southern North Sea, emended descriptions of the genus Octadecabacter and its species and reclassification of Octadecabacter jejudonensis Park and Yoon 2014 as Pseudooctadecabacter jejudonensis gen. nov., comb. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 65, 1967-1974.
Original article in IJSEM Online