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

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

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene accession number: KM502325

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

• Notes:
  • The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by García-López et al. (2019).

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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