Name: Citreicella aestuarii Park et al. 2011

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: aes.tu.a’ri.i. L. gen. neut. n. aestuarii, of a tidal flat, from where the organism was isolated

Pronunciation, gender: a͡es-tu-A-ri-i, feminine

Type strain: AD8; DSM 22011; KACC 13699

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: FJ230833 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Park MS, Chung BS, Lee HJ, Jin HM, Lee SS, Oh YK, Jeon CO. Citreicella aestuarii sp. nov., isolated from a tidal flat. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:2595-2599.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 61, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:261-262.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Salipiger aestuarii (Park et al. 2011) Wirth and Whitman 2018

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Salipiger aestuarii (Park et al. 2011) Wirth and Whitman 2018	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• 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:
  • ❗ Citreicella aestuarii 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 Citreicella.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — 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 3 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.

Parent taxon: Citreicella Sorokin et al. 2006

Assigned by: Park MS, Chung BS, Lee HJ, Jin HM, Lee SS, Oh YK, Jeon CO. Citreicella aestuarii sp. nov., isolated from a tidal flat. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:2595-2599.

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Record number: 789529