Name: Celeribacter neptunius Ivanova et al. 2010

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: nep.tu’ni.us. L. masc. adj. neptunius, pertaining to Neptunius (Roman god of the sea), referring to the habitat of the bacteria

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CIP 109922; DSM 26471; H 14; KMM 6012

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: FJ535354 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Ivanova EP, Webb H, Christen R, Zhukova NV, Kurilenko VV, Kalinovskaya NI, Crawford RJ. Celeribacter neptunius gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the class Alphaproteobacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1620-1625.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2261-2262.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Hördt et al. 2020 Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468. 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:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Celeribacter Ivanova et al. 2010. Publication: Ivanova EP, Webb H, Christen R, Zhukova NV, Kurilenko VV, Kalinovskaya NI, Crawford RJ. Celeribacter neptunius gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the class Alphaproteobacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1620-1625.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 5 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Celeribacter Ivanova et al. 2010

Assigned by: Ivanova EP, Webb H, Christen R, Zhukova NV, Kurilenko VV, Kalinovskaya NI, Crawford RJ. Celeribacter neptunius gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the class Alphaproteobacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1620-1625.

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