Name: Algibacter pectinivorans (Yi et al. 2011) Park et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Pontirhabdus pectinivorans Yi et al. 2011

Etymology: pec.ti.ni.vo’rans. N.L. neut. n. pectinum, pectin; L. pres. part. vorans, devouring; N.L. part. adj. pectinivorans, pectin-devouring

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 25730; JC2675; JCM 17107; KACC 14153

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: HM475134 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Park SC, Hwang YM, Choe HN, Baik KS, Kim H, Seong CN. Algibacter aquimarinus sp. nov., isolated from a marine environment, and reclassification of Pontirhabdus pectinivorans as Algibacter pectinivorans comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2038-2042.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3135-3137.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Pontirhabdus pectinivorans Yi et al. 2011	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• 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:
  • 😷 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 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Algibacter Nedashkovskaya et al. 2004

Assigned by: Park SC, Hwang YM, Choe HN, Baik KS, Kim H, Seong CN. Algibacter aquimarinus sp. nov., isolated from a marine environment, and reclassification of Pontirhabdus pectinivorans as Algibacter pectinivorans comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2038-2042.

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Record number: 790833