Name: Emticicia oligotrophica Saha and Chakrabarti 2006

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: o.li.go.tro’phi.ca. Gr. masc. adj. oligos, few; Gr. masc. adj. trophikos, nursing, tending or feeding; N.L. fem. adj. oligotrophica, eating little, referring to a bacterium living on low-nutrient media

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 17448; GPTSA100-15; MTCC 6937

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AY904352 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Saha P, Chakrabarti T. Emticicia oligotrophica gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family 'Flexibacteraceae', phylum Bacteroidetes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:991-995.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 56, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1719-1720.

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 genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Emticicia Saha and Chakrabarti 2006. Publication: Saha P, Chakrabarti T. Emticicia oligotrophica gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family 'Flexibacteraceae', phylum Bacteroidetes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:991-995.
  • 😢 The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. Contrasting the term "chemotaxonomic" with "phenotypic" is not recommended. Whether taxa can have "members" is debatable. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details. Publication: Göker M. What can genome analysis offer for bacteria? In: Bridge P, Smith D, Stackebrandt E (eds), Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi, CAB International, Wallingford, 2021, p. 255-281.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 10 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Emticicia Saha and Chakrabarti 2006

Assigned by: Saha P, Chakrabarti T. Emticicia oligotrophica gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family 'Flexibacteraceae', phylum Bacteroidetes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:991-995.

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