Name: Aequorivita capsosiphonis Park et al. 2009

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: cap.so.si.pho.nis. N.L. gen. masc. n. capsosiphonis, of Capsosiphon, the scientific name of the marine alga from which the type strain was isolated

Gender: feminine

Type strain: A71; DSM 23843; JCM 15070; KCTC 22183

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EU290153 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Park SC, Baik KS, Kim MS, Kim SS, Kim SR, Oh MJ, Kim D, Bang BH, Seong CN. Aequorivita capsosiphonis sp. nov., isolated from the green alga Capsosiphon fulvescens, and emended description of the genus Aequorivita. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:724-728.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1557-1558.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Liu et al. 2013 Liu JJ, Zhang XQ, Pan J, Sun C, Zhang Y, Li CQ, Zhu XF, Wu M. Aequorivita viscosa sp. nov., isolated from an intertidal zone, and emended descriptions of Aequorivita antarctica and Aequorivita capsosiphonis. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3192-3196. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:4371-4373.

• Notes:
  • The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.07581 (N = 99).
  • The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project. Publication: Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:2003.

Parent taxon: Aequorivita Bowman and Nichols 2002

Assigned by: Park SC, Baik KS, Kim MS, Kim SS, Kim SR, Oh MJ, Kim D, Bang BH, Seong CN. Aequorivita capsosiphonis sp. nov., isolated from the green alga Capsosiphon fulvescens, and emended description of the genus Aequorivita. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:724-728.

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