Name: Cetia pacifica Grosche et al. 2015

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: pa.ci’fi.ca. L. fem. adj. pacifica, peaceful, referring to the Pacific Ocean, indicating the type strain’s origin of isolation

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 27783; JCM 19563; TB-6

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KF648717 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Grosche A, Sekaran H, Perez-Rodriguez I, Starovoytov V, Vetriani C. Cetia pacifica gen. nov., sp. nov., a chemolithoautotrophic, thermophilic, nitrate-ammonifying bacterium from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1144-1150.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 65, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:2026-2027.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Caminibacter pacificus (Grosche et al. 2015) Shiotani et al. 2021

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Caminibacter pacificus (Grosche et al. 2015) Shiotani et al. 2021	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Cetia Grosche et al. 2015. Publication: Grosche A, Sekaran H, Perez-Rodriguez I, Starovoytov V, Vetriani C. Cetia pacifica gen. nov., sp. nov., a chemolithoautotrophic, thermophilic, nitrate-ammonifying bacterium from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1144-1150.
  • ❗ Cetia pacifica is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Cetia.
  • 😷 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: Cetia Grosche et al. 2015

Assigned by: Grosche A, Sekaran H, Perez-Rodriguez I, Starovoytov V, Vetriani C. Cetia pacifica gen. nov., sp. nov., a chemolithoautotrophic, thermophilic, nitrate-ammonifying bacterium from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1144-1150.

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