Name: Emcibacter congregatus Zhao et al. 2018

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: con.gre.ga’tus. L. masc. part. adj. congregatus, clustered, always clustered when cultured in lipid medium

Pronunciation, gender: kon-gre-GA-tus, masculine

Type strain: JCM 32378; KCTC 62328; MCCC 1K03526

See detailed strain information at

Valid publication: Zhao Z, Shen X, Chen W, Yu XY, Fu GY, Sun C, Wu M. Emcibacter congregatus sp. nov., isolated from sediment cultured in situ. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:2846-2850. 🇨🇳

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 68, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:3685-3687.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Paremcibacter congregatus (Zhao et al. 2018) Park et al. 2020

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Paremcibacter congregatus (Zhao et al. 2018) Park et al. 2020	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 😩 Deposits incorrectly indicated in some sources as representing the type strain of this taxon: KCCM 43320; MCCC 1K03920.
  • ❗ Emcibacter congregatus 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 Emcibacter.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Hördt et al. (2020). Publication: 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. 🇩🇪

Parent taxon: Emcibacter Liu et al. 2015

Assigned by: Zhao Z, Shen X, Chen W, Yu XY, Fu GY, Sun C, Wu M. Emcibacter congregatus sp. nov., isolated from sediment cultured in situ. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:2846-2850. 🇨🇳

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