Name: Arcticibacter svalbardensis Prasad et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: sval.bard.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. svalbardensis, of or belonging to Svalbard, from where the type strain was isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CIP 110422; KCTC 32015; MN12-7

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: JQ396621 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Prasad S, Manasa BP, Buddhi S, Pratibha MS, Begum Z, Bandi S, Tirunagari P, Shivaji S. Arcticibacter svalbardensis gen. nov., sp. nov., of the family Sphingobacteriaceae in the phylum Bacteroidetes, isolated from Arctic soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1627-1632.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2755-2756.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Hahnke et al. 2016 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. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 26. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2081-2086.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Arcticibacter Prasad et al. 2013. Publication: Prasad S, Manasa BP, Buddhi S, Pratibha MS, Begum Z, Bandi S, Tirunagari P, Shivaji S. Arcticibacter svalbardensis gen. nov., sp. nov., of the family Sphingobacteriaceae in the phylum Bacteroidetes, isolated from Arctic soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1627-1632.
  • 😷 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.
  • 🧍 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: Prasad S, Manasa BP, Buddhi S, Pratibha MS, Begum Z, Bandi S, Tirunagari P, Shivaji S. Arcticibacter svalbardensis gen. nov., sp. nov., of the family Sphingobacteriaceae in the phylum Bacteroidetes, isolated from Arctic soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1627-1632.

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