Name: Arenibacter echinorum Nedashkovskaya et al. 2007

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: e.chi.no’rum. L. gen. masc. pl. n. echinorum, of sea urchins

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 23522; KCTC 22013; KMM 6032; LMG 22574

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EF536748 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Nedashkovskaya OI, Kim SB, Lysenko AM, Lee KH, Bae KS, Mikhailov VV. Arenibacter echinorum sp. nov., isolated from the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus intermedius. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2655-2659.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:313-314.

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 4 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project. 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.
  • 🧍 In the paper by Nedashkovskaya et al. 2007, the etymology is erroneously cited as follows: L. gen. pl. n. echinorum of sea urchins; N.L. gen. n. echinorum bacterium isolated from sea urchins. Publication: Euzeby JP. List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:590-592.

Parent taxon: Arenibacter Ivanova et al. 2001

Assigned by: Nedashkovskaya OI, Kim SB, Lysenko AM, Lee KH, Bae KS, Mikhailov VV. Arenibacter echinorum sp. nov., isolated from the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus intermedius. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2655-2659.

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