Name: Octadecabacter Gosink et al. 1998
Etymology: Oc.ta.de.ca.bac.ter. Gr. n. oktô, the number eight; Gr. fem. n. dekas, the number ten; N.L. masc. n. bacter, rod; N.L. masc. n. Octadecabacter, an 18-carbon fatty acid-containing rod
Gender: masculine (stem: Octadecabacter-)
Type species: Octadecabacter arcticus Gosink et al. 1998
Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS
Effective publication:
Gosink J, Hewig RP, Staley JT. Octadecabacter arcticus gen. nov., sp. nov., nonpigmented, psychrophilic gas vacuolate bacteria from polar sea ice and water. Syst Appl Microbiol 1997; 20:356-365.
IJSEM list:
Anonymous. Validation list no. 64. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:327-328.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 7
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 8
Total number of child taxa: 8
Name | Nomenclatural status | Taxonomic status |
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Octadecabacter algicola Jin et al. 2023 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Octadecabacter antarcticus Gosink et al. 1998 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Octadecabacter arcticus Gosink et al. 1998 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Octadecabacter ascidiaceicola Kim et al. 2016 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Octadecabacter dasysiphoniae Jin et al. 2023 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Octadecabacter jejudonensis Park and Yoon 2014 | validly published under the ICNP | synonym |
Octadecabacter ponticola Park et al. 2016 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Octadecabacter temperatus Billerbeck et al. 2015 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
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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