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Genus Oceanicola
Name: Oceanicola Cho and Giovannoni 2004
Etymology: O.ce.a.ni’co.la. L. masc. n. oceanus, the ocean; L. masc./fem. n. suff. -cola, inhabitant; N.L. masc. n. Oceanicola, inhabitant of the ocean
Gender: masculine (stem: Oceanicol-)
Type species: Oceanicola granulosus Cho and Giovannoni 2004
Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS
Valid publication:
Cho JC, Giovannoni SJ. Oceanicola granulosus gen. nov., sp. nov. and Oceanicola batsensis sp. nov., poly-beta-hydroxybutyrate-producing marine bacteria in the order 'Rhodobacterales'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1129-1136. 
IJSEM list:
Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 54, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1911-1913.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name
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Notes:
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🧕 Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Rhodobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006.
Publication:
Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO. The SILVA and “all-species living tree project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; 42(D1):D643-D648.
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Oeanicola".
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 7; LMG: 6; CGMCC: 5; KCTC: 3; ATCC: 2; CCUG: 1; CCTCC: 1; BCRC: 1; MCCC: 1.
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🧕 Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Rhodobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006.
Publication:
Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO. The SILVA and “all-species living tree project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; 42(D1):D643-D648.
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 9
Total number of child taxa: 9
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status Oceanicola antarcticus Huo et al. 2014 validly published under the ICNP synonym Oceanicola batsensis Cho and Giovannoni 2004 validly published under the ICNP synonym Oceanicola flagellatus Huo et al. 2014 validly published under the ICNP synonym Oceanicola granulosus Cho and Giovannoni 2004 validly published under the ICNP correct name Oceanicola litoreus Park et al. 2013 validly published under the ICNP synonym Oceanicola marinus Lin et al. 2007 validly published under the ICNP synonym Oceanicola nanhaiensis Gu et al. 2007 validly published under the ICNP synonym Oceanicola nitratireducens Zheng et al. 2010 validly published under the ICNP synonym Oceanicola pacificus Yuan et al. 2009 validly published under the ICNP synonym
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Parent taxon: Roseobacteraceae Liang et al. 2021
Assigned by:
Liang KYH, Orata FD, Boucher YF, Case RJ. Roseobacters in a Sea of Poly- and Paraphyly: Whole Genome-Based Taxonomy of the Family Rhodobacteraceae and the Proposal for the Split of the "Roseobacter Clade" Into a Novel Family, Roseobacteraceae fam. nov. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:683109.
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Record number: 516192
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