Name: Actibacterium pelagium Guo et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: pe.la’gi.um. L. neut. adj. pelagium, of or belonging to the sea

Gender: neuter

Type strain: CGMCC 1.16012; JN33; KCTC 52653

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KY273602 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Guo LL, Wu YH, Xu XW, Huang CJ, Xu YY, Cheng H, Wang CS, Wu M, Xu XW. Actibacterium pelagium sp. nov., a novel alphaproteobacterium, and emended description of the genus Actibacterium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:5080-5086.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:695-697.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time 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: Actibacterium Lucena et al. 2012

Assigned by: Guo LL, Wu YH, Xu XW, Huang CJ, Xu YY, Cheng H, Wang CS, Wu M, Xu XW. Actibacterium pelagium sp. nov., a novel alphaproteobacterium, and emended description of the genus Actibacterium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:5080-5086.

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