Name: Amylibacter kogurei Wong et al. 2018

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ko.gu’re.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. kogurei, of Kogure, to honour the Japanese microbiologist, Kazuhiro Kogure in recognition of his contribution to the field of marine microbiology

Gender: masculine

Type strain: 4G11; KCTC 52506; KY 463497; NBRC 112428

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KY463497 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Wong SK, Yoshizawa S, Nakajima Y, Cuadra MJ, Nogi Y, Nakamura K, Takami H, Ogura Y, Hayashi T, Chiura HX, et al. Amylibacter kogurei sp. nov., a novel marine alphaproteobacterium isolated from the coastal sea surface microlayer of a marine inlet. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:2872-2877.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 68, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:3685-3687.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• 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:
  • 😩 Deposit incorrectly indicated in some sources as representing the type strain of this taxon: KCTC 32465.
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.05849 (N = 44).
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Amylibacter Teramoto and Nishijima 2014

Assigned by: Wong SK, Yoshizawa S, Nakajima Y, Cuadra MJ, Nogi Y, Nakamura K, Takami H, Ogura Y, Hayashi T, Chiura HX, et al. Amylibacter kogurei sp. nov., a novel marine alphaproteobacterium isolated from the coastal sea surface microlayer of a marine inlet. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:2872-2877.

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