Name: Falsiruegeria mediterranea (Lucena et al. 2014) Liang et al. 2021

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Tropicibacter mediterraneus Lucena et al. 2014

Etymology: me.di.ter.ra’ne.a. L. fem. adj. mediterranea, from the Mediterranean Sea

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CECT 7615; KCTC 23058; M17

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: HE860710 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Liang KYH, Orata FD, Boucher YF, Case RJ. Roseobacters in a Sea of Poly- and Paraphyly: Whole Genome-Based Taxonomy of the Family Rhodobacteraceae and the Proposal for the Split of the "Roseobacter Clade" Into a Novel Family, Roseobacteraceae fam. nov. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:683109.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 202. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:5096.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Ruegeria mediterranea (Lucena et al. 2014) Wirth and Whitman 2018

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Ruegeria mediterranea (Lucena et al. 2014) Wirth and Whitman 2018	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Tropicibacter mediterraneus Lucena et al. 2014	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Falsiruegeria Liang et al. 2021. Publication: Liang KYH, Orata FD, Boucher YF, Case RJ. Roseobacters in a Sea of Poly- and Paraphyly: Whole Genome-Based Taxonomy of the Family Rhodobacteraceae and the Proposal for the Split of the "Roseobacter Clade" Into a Novel Family, Roseobacteraceae fam. nov. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:683109.
  • ❗ Falsiruegeria mediterranea 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 Falsiruegeria.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 0 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Falsiruegeria Liang et al. 2021

Assigned by: Liang KYH, Orata FD, Boucher YF, Case RJ. Roseobacters in a Sea of Poly- and Paraphyly: Whole Genome-Based Taxonomy of the Family Rhodobacteraceae and the Proposal for the Split of the "Roseobacter Clade" Into a Novel Family, Roseobacteraceae fam. nov. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:683109.

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Record number: 10510