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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Genus Phycobium

Name: Phycobium Kim et al. 2025

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Phy.co’bi.um. Gr. neut. n. phŷkos, seaweed; Gr. masc. n. bios, life; N.L. neut. n. Phycobium, a living form from an alga

Gender, pronunciation: neuter (stem: Phycobi-), phy-KO-bi-um

Type species: Phycobium rhodophyticola Kim et al. 2025

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Kim JM, Baek W, Choi BJ, Bayburt H, Lee JK, Lee SC, Jeon CO. Phycobium rhodophyticola gen. nov., sp. nov. and Aliiphycobium algicola gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the phycosphere of marine red algae. J Microbiol 2025; 63:e2503014.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 226. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6910.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

Parent taxon: Roseobacteraceae Liang et al. 2021

Assigned by: Kim JM, Baek W, Choi BJ, Bayburt H, Lee JK, Lee SC, Jeon CO. Phycobium rhodophyticola gen. nov., sp. nov. and Aliiphycobium algicola gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the phycosphere of marine red algae. J Microbiol 2025; 63:e2503014.

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Record number: 66496
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