Name: Aliiroseovarius halocynthiae (Kim et al. 2012) Park et al. 2015

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Roseovarius halocynthiae Kim et al. 2012

Etymology: ha.lo.cyn’thi.ae. N.L. gen. fem. n. halocynthiae, of Halocynthia, named after the generic name of the sea squirt Halocynthia roretzi, from which the type strain was isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CCUG 60745; DSM 27840; KCTC 23462; MA1-10

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: HQ852039 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Park S, Park JM, Kang CH, Yoon JH. Aliiroseovarius pelagivivens gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from seawater, and reclassification of three species of the genus Roseovarius as Aliiroseovarius crassostreae comb. nov., Aliiroseovarius halocynthiae comb. nov. and Aliiroseovarius sediminilitoris comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:2646-2652.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 65, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:3768-3770.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Roseovarius halocynthiae Kim et al. 2012	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Pseudoroseovarius halocynthiae (Kim et al. 2012) Sun et al. 2015	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Emendations:
  • Hördt et al. 2020 Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468. 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 phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.18358 (N = 111).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Aliiroseovarius Park et al. 2015

Assigned by: Park S, Park JM, Kang CH, Yoon JH. Aliiroseovarius pelagivivens gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from seawater, and reclassification of three species of the genus Roseovarius as Aliiroseovarius crassostreae comb. nov., Aliiroseovarius halocynthiae comb. nov. and Aliiroseovarius sediminilitoris comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:2646-2652.

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Record number: 793071