Name: Agarivorans litoreus Park et al. 2015

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: li.to’re.us. L. masc. adj. litoreus, belonging to the seashore

Gender: masculine

Type strain: GJSW-6; KCTC 42116; NBRC 110444

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KJ729029 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Park S, Park JM, Jung YT, Yoon JH. Agarivorans litoreus sp. nov., a novel gammaproteobacterium isolated from seawater and emended description of the genus Agarivorans. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2014; 106:1041-1047.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 163. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1105-1111.

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 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Agarivorans Kurahashi and Yokota 2004

Assigned by: Park S, Park JM, Jung YT, Yoon JH. Agarivorans litoreus sp. nov., a novel gammaproteobacterium isolated from seawater and emended description of the genus Agarivorans. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2014; 106:1041-1047.

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Record number: 792708