Name: Algoriphagus machipongonensis Alegado et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ma.chi.pon.go.nen’sis N.L. masc./fem. adj. machipongonensis, of or belonging to Machipongo, the Algonquin name for Hog Island

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-2233; DSM 24695; PR1

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: CM001023 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Alegado RA, Grabenstatter JD, Zuzow R, Morris A, Huang SY, Summons RE, King N. Algoriphagus machipongonensis sp. nov., co-isolated with a colonial choanoflagellate. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:163-168.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1211-1213.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. Contrasting the term "chemotaxonomic" with "phenotypic" is not recommended. Using the term "phylogenetic data" (or equivalent) for sequence data is not advocated. Whether taxa can have "members" is debatable. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details. Publication: Göker M. What can genome analysis offer for bacteria? In: Bridge P, Smith D, Stackebrandt E (eds), Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi, CAB International, Wallingford, 2021, p. 255-281.
  • The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by García-López et al. (2019). Publication: 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.
  • The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Hahnke et al. (2016). Publication: Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:2003.

Parent taxon: Algoriphagus Bowman et al. 2003

Assigned by: Alegado RA, Grabenstatter JD, Zuzow R, Morris A, Huang SY, Summons RE, King N. Algoriphagus machipongonensis sp. nov., co-isolated with a colonial choanoflagellate. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:163-168.

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