Name: Aquimarina agarivorans Zhou et al. 2015

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: a.ga.ri’vo.rans. N.L. neut. n. agarum, agar; L. pres. part. vorans, devouring, destroying; N.L. fem. part. adj. agarivorans, agar-devouring

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-2612; CICC 10835; HQM9

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: HQ593612 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Zhou YX, Wang C, Du ZJ, Chen GJ. Aquimarina agarivorans sp. nov., a genome-sequenced member of the class Flavobacteriia isolated from Gelidium amansii. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:2684-2688.

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

• 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. 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 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 1 time in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
  • 🧍 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: Zhou YX, Wang C, Du ZJ, Chen GJ. Aquimarina agarivorans sp. nov., a genome-sequenced member of the class Flavobacteriia isolated from Gelidium amansii. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:2684-2688.

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