Name: Porphyrobacter dokdonensis Yoon et al. 2006

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: dok.do.nen’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. dokdonensis, of Dokdo, from where the strain was isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 17193; DSW-74; KCTC 12395

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: DQ011529 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Yoon JH, Kang SJ, Lee MH, Oh HW, Oh TK. Porphyrobacter dokdonensis sp. nov., isolated from sea water. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1079-1083.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 56, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1719-1720.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Erythrobacter dokdonensis (Yoon et al. 2006) Xu et al. 2020

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Erythrobacter dokdonensis (Yoon et al. 2006) Xu et al. 2020	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ❗ Porphyrobacter dokdonensis is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Porphyrobacter.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 4 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Hördt et al. (2020). Publication: Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468.

Parent taxon: Porphyrobacter Fuerst et al. 1993

Assigned by: Yoon JH, Kang SJ, Lee MH, Oh HW, Oh TK. Porphyrobacter dokdonensis sp. nov., isolated from sea water. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1079-1083.

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