Name: Aquimarina atlantica Li et al. 2015

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: at.lan’ti.ca. L. fem. adj. atlantica, of or pertaining to the Atlantic Ocean, where the strain was isolated

Gender: feminine

Type strain: 22II-S11-z7; KCTC 42003; MCCC 1A09239

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KF906719 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Li G, Lai Q, Sun F, Liu X, Xie Y, Du Y, Li G, Shao Z. Aquimarina atlantica sp. nov., isolated from surface seawater of the Atlantic Ocean. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2014; 106:293-300.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 161. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1-4.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 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.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Hahnke et al. (2016). Publication: Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:2003.

Parent taxon: Aquimarina Nedashkovskaya et al. 2005

Assigned by: Li G, Lai Q, Sun F, Liu X, Xie Y, Du Y, Li G, Shao Z. Aquimarina atlantica sp. nov., isolated from surface seawater of the Atlantic Ocean. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2014; 106:293-300.

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Record number: 792454