Name: Croceibacter atlanticus Cho and Giovannoni 2003

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: at.lan’ti.cus. L. masc. adj. atlanticus, of or pertaining to the Atlantic Ocean (a species isolated from the Atlantic Ocean)

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-628; HTCC 2559; JCM 21780; KCTC 12090

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AY163576 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Cho JC, Giovannoni SJ. Croceibacter atlanticus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium in the family Flavobacteriaceae. Syst Appl Microbiol 2003; 26:76-83.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 92. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:935-937.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Croceibacter Cho and Giovannoni 2003. Publication: Cho JC, Giovannoni SJ. Croceibacter atlanticus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium in the family Flavobacteriaceae. Syst Appl Microbiol 2003; 26:76-83.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 11 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by García-López et al. (2019). 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.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Hahnke et al. (2016). Publication: Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:2003.

Parent taxon: Croceibacter Cho and Giovannoni 2003

Assigned by: Cho JC, Giovannoni SJ. Croceibacter atlanticus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium in the family Flavobacteriaceae. Syst Appl Microbiol 2003; 26:76-83.

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