Name: Alcanivorax hongdengensis Wu et al. 2009

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: hong.deng.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. hongdengensis, pertaining to Hong-Deng, isolated from surface seawater near the Hong-Deng dock in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore

Gender: masculine

Type strain: A-11-3; CGMCC 1.7084; LMG 24624; MCCC 1A01496

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EU438901 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Wu Y, Lai Q, Zhou Z, Qiao N, Liu C, Shao Z. Alcanivorax hongdengensis sp. nov., an alkane-degrading bacterium isolated from surface seawater of the straits of Malacca and Singapore, producing a lipopeptide as its biosurfactant. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1474-1479.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2131-2132.

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 6 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Alcanivorax Yakimov et al. 1998

Assigned by: Wu Y, Lai Q, Zhou Z, Qiao N, Liu C, Shao Z. Alcanivorax hongdengensis sp. nov., an alkane-degrading bacterium isolated from surface seawater of the straits of Malacca and Singapore, producing a lipopeptide as its biosurfactant. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1474-1479.

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Record number: 787908