Name: Aquimarina agarilytica Lin et al. 2012

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: a.ga.ri.ly’ti.ca N.L. neut. n. agarum, agar-agar, algal polysaccharide; N.L. adj. lyticus -a -um, able to loosen, able to dissolve; from Gr. adj. [λυτικός -ή -όν] lytikos -ê -on, able to loosen, able to dissolve; N.L. fem. adj. agarilytica, agar-dissolving

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CCTCC AB 2010229; DSM 21889; NBRC 107695; ZC1

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: FJ750453 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Lin B, Lu G, Zheng Y, Xie W, Li S, Hu Z. Aquimarina agarilytica sp. nov., an agarolytic species isolated from a red alga. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:869-873.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 62, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1446-1447.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 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.

Parent taxon: Aquimarina Nedashkovskaya et al. 2005

Assigned by: Lin B, Lu G, Zheng Y, Xie W, Li S, Hu Z. Aquimarina agarilytica sp. nov., an agarolytic species isolated from a red alga. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:869-873.

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