Genus Shimia

Name: Shimia Choi and Cho 2006

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Shi’mi.a. N.L. fem. n. Shimia, named in honour of Dr Jae H. Shim, for his contributions to marine plankton ecology in Korea

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Shimi-), S͡HI-mi-a

Type species: Shimia marina Choi and Cho 2006

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Choi DH, Cho BC. Shimia marina gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel bacterium of the Roseobacter clade isolated from biofilm in a coastal fish farm. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1869-1873. 🇰🇷

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 56, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:2509-2510.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Pseudopelagicola Kim et al. 2014	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
Pelagicola Kim et al. 2008	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Emendations:
- Hameed et al. 2013 Hameed A, Shahina M, Lin SY, Lai WA, Hsu YH, Liu YC, Huang YM, Young CC. Shimia biformata sp. nov., isolated from surface seawater, and emended description of the genus Shimia Choi and Cho 2006. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:4533-4539. 🇹🇼 Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:697-699.
  Notes:
  - ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
- Wirth and Whitman 2018 Wirth JS, Whitman WB. Phylogenomic analyses of a clade within the roseobacter group suggest taxonomic reassignments of species of the genera Aestuariivita, Citreicella, Loktanella, Nautella, Pelagibaca, Ruegeria, Thalassobius, Thiobacimonas and Tropicibacter, and the proposal of six novel genera. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:2393-2411. 🇺🇸 Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 68, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:3077-3079.
  Notes:
  - ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 3 new species in the genus.

Notes:
- 🧕 Choi and Cho (2006) assigned this genus to the family Rhodobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Choi DH, Cho BC. Shimia marina gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel bacterium of the Roseobacter clade isolated from biofilm in a coastal fish farm. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1869-1873. 🇰🇷
- 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Nogi et al. (2016), Kim et al. (2008), Park et al. (2014). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 8; JCM: 6; KCTC: 6; CECT: 3; MCCC: 3; BCRC: 2; KCCM: 2; LMG: 2; NBRC: 1; KACC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 13
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 13
Total number of child taxa: 14

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Shimia abyssi (Nogi et al. 2016) Wirth and Whitman 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Shimia aestuarii (Yi and Chun 2007) Wirth and Whitman 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Shimia aquaeponti (Park et al. 2015) Wirth and Whitman 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Shimia biformata Hameed et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Shimia fortis" Dong et al. 2026	not validly published	preferred name
Shimia gijangensis (Kim et al. 2014) Arahal et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Shimia haliotis Hyun et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Shimia isoporae Chen et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Shimia litoralis (Kim et al. 2008) Zhang et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Shimia marina Choi and Cho 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Shimia ponticola Chen et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Shimia sagamensis Nogi et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Shimia sediminis Zhu et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Shimia thalassica Arahal et al. 2019	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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