Name: Amylibacter ulvae Nedashkovskaya et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ul’vae. L. gen. fem. n. ulvae, of/from Ulva, the genus name of Ulva fenestrata, the host of the organism

Pronunciation, gender: UL-wa͡e, masculine

Type strain: 6Alg 255; KCTC 32465; KMM 6515

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KR492890 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Nedashkovskaya OI, Kukhlevskiy AD, Zhukova NV, Kim SB. Amylibacter ulvae sp. nov., a new alphaproteobacterium isolated from the Pacific green alga Ulva fenestrata. Arch Microbiol 2016; 198:251-256.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 170. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2463-2466.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Paramylibacter ulvae (Nedashkovskaya et al. 2016) Huang et al. 2024	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.06530 (N = 19).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.

Parent taxon: Amylibacter Teramoto and Nishijima 2014

Assigned by: Nedashkovskaya OI, Kukhlevskiy AD, Zhukova NV, Kim SB. Amylibacter ulvae sp. nov., a new alphaproteobacterium isolated from the Pacific green alga Ulva fenestrata. Arch Microbiol 2016; 198:251-256.

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Record number: 794268