Name: Colwellia asteriadis Choi et al. 2010

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: as.te’ri.adis. N.L. fem. n. Asterias, a zoological genus name; N.L. gen. fem. n. asteriadis, of Asterias, referring to the isolation of the type strain from the starfish Asterias amurensis

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 21797; JCM 15608; KCCM 90077; KMD 2

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EU599214 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Choi EJ, Kwon HC, Koh HY, Kim YS, Yang HO. Colwellia asteriadis sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from the starfish Asterias amurensis. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1952-1957.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2511-2512.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Liu et al. 2020 Liu A, Zhang YJ, Xue QJ, Wang H, Yang YY, Du F, Zhao LY, Zhang HH, Li YQ, Li XZ. Litorilituus lipolyticus sp. nov., isolated from intertidal sand of the Yellow Sea in China, and emended description of Colwellia asteriadis. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2020; 113:449-458. 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:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Colwellia Deming et al. 1988

Assigned by: Choi EJ, Kwon HC, Koh HY, Kim YS, Yang HO. Colwellia asteriadis sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from the starfish Asterias amurensis. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1952-1957.

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