Name: Arcticibacter eurypsychrophilus Shen et al. 2015

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: eu.ry.psy.chro’phi.lus. Gr. masc. adj. eurys, wide, broad; Gr. masc. adj. psychros, cold; N.L. masc. adj. suff. -philus, friend, loving; from Gr. masc. adj. philos, on; N.L. masc. adj. eurypsychrophilus, loving a broad range of low temperatures

Pronunciation, gender: e͡u-ry-psy-K^HRO-p^hi-lus, masculine

Type strain: JCM 19862; KCTC 42008; MJ9-5

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: JX678846 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Shen L, Liu Y, Gu Z, Yao T, Xu B, Wang N, Jiao N, Liu H, Zhou Y. Arcticibacter eurypsychrophilus sp. nov., isolated from ice core. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:639-643.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 65, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1397-1399.

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, note = "(spelled 'Arcticibacter eurypsychropilus' in TRBA)". — 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: Arcticibacter Prasad et al. 2013

Assigned by: Shen L, Liu Y, Gu Z, Yao T, Xu B, Wang N, Jiao N, Liu H, Zhou Y. Arcticibacter eurypsychrophilus sp. nov., isolated from ice core. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:639-643.

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Record number: 792519