Name: Fabibacter pacificus Huo et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: pa.ci’fi.cus. L. masc. adj. pacificus, pacific referring to the Pacific Ocean, from which the type strain was isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CGMCC 1.12402; DSM 100771; DY53; JCM 18885

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KC005305 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Huo YY, Xu L, Wang CS, Yang JY, You H, Oren A, Xu XW. Fabibacter pacificus sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from seawater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3710-3714.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:6-7.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Roseivirga pacifica (Huo et al. 2013) García-López et al. 2020

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Roseivirga pacifica (Huo et al. 2013) García-López et al. 2020	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 😢 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. Using the term "phylogenetic data" (or equivalent) for sequence data is not advocated. 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.
  • ❗ Fabibacter pacificus 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 Fabibacter.
  • 😷 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 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project. — 🧍 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: Fabibacter Lau et al. 2006

Assigned by: Huo YY, Xu L, Wang CS, Yang JY, You H, Oren A, Xu XW. Fabibacter pacificus sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from seawater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3710-3714.

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