Name: Croceitalea dokdonensis Lee et al. 2008

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: dok.do.nen’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. dokdonensis, pertaining to Dokdo, the Korean island from where the type strain was isolated

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DOKDO 23; JCM 13826; KCCM 42308

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: DQ191182 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Lee HS, Kwon KK, Yang SH, Bae SS, Park CH, Kim SJ, Lee JH. Description of Croceitalea gen. nov. in the family Flavobacteriaceae with two species, Croceitalea eckloniae sp. nov. and Croceitalea dokdonensis sp. nov., isolated from the rhizosphere of the marine alga Ecklonia kurome. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:2505-2510.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 58, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:205-206.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Hahnke et al. 2016 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. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 26. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2081-2086.

• Notes:
  • 😷 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.
  • 🧍 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.

Parent taxon: Croceitalea Lee et al. 2008

Assigned by: Lee HS, Kwon KK, Yang SH, Bae SS, Park CH, Kim SJ, Lee JH. Description of Croceitalea gen. nov. in the family Flavobacteriaceae with two species, Croceitalea eckloniae sp. nov. and Croceitalea dokdonensis sp. nov., isolated from the rhizosphere of the marine alga Ecklonia kurome. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:2505-2510.

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