Name: Arcicella aurantiaca Sheu et al. 2010

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: au.ran.ti.a’ca. N.L. fem. adj. aurantiaca, orange-coloured

Gender: feminine

Type strain: BCRC 17969; DSM 22214; LMG 25207; TNR-18

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: FJ593908 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Sheu SY, Yang CS, Chen MH, Arun AB, Young CC, Chen WM. Arcicella aurantiaca sp. nov., isolated from stream water. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2979-2983.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:477-478.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Chen et al. 2013 Chen WM, Yang SH, Young CC, Sheu SY. Arcicella rigui sp. nov., isolated from water of a wetland, and emended descriptions of the genus Arcicella, Arcicella aquatica, Arcicella rosea and Arcicella aurantiaca. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:134-140. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1211-1213.
  • García-López et al. 2019 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. 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:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.06718 (N = 15).
  • 😷 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 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Arcicella Nikitin et al. 2004

Assigned by: Sheu SY, Yang CS, Chen MH, Arun AB, Young CC, Chen WM. Arcicella aurantiaca sp. nov., isolated from stream water. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2979-2983.

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