Name: Algibacter aquaticus Wong et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: a.qua’ti.cus L. masc. adj. aquaticus, living, growing, or found in or by water, aquatic

Gender: masculine

Type strains: KCTC 32974; NBRC 110220; SK-16

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KM502325 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Wong SK, Park S, Lee JS, Lee KC, Ogura Y, Hayashi T, Chiura HX, Yoshizawa S, Hamasaki K. Algibacter aquaticus sp. nov., a slightly alkaliphilic marine Flavobacterium isolated from coastal surface water. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2199-2204.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:3689-3691.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • García-López et al. 2019 Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.
    Notes:
    • As of 2020-04-15 this emendation was not yet included in an IJSEM List of Changes in Taxonomic Opinion.

Parent taxon: Algibacter Nedashkovskaya et al. 2004

Assigned by: Wong SK, Park S, Lee JS, Lee KC, Ogura Y, Hayashi T, Chiura HX, Yoshizawa S, Hamasaki K. Algibacter aquaticus sp. nov., a slightly alkaliphilic marine Flavobacterium isolated from coastal surface water. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2199-2204.

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