Name: Flavivirga eckloniae Lee et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: eck.lo.ni’ae. N.L. gen. fem. n. eckloniae, of Ecklonia, referring to the isolation of the type strain from Ecklonia cava

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ECD14; JCM 31797; KCTC 52352

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KU725769 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Lee JH, Kang JW, Choe HN, Seong CN. Flavivirga eckloniae sp. nov. and Flavivirga aquimarina sp. nov., isolated from seaweed Ecklonia cava. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:3089-3094.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:4294-4297.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.01290 (N = 65).
  • 😷 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 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 According to Ludwig et al. (2021), this "species affiliates away from the type species F. jejuensis, and is susceptible to being reclassified as a new genus". Publication: Ludwig W, Viver T, Westram R, Francisco Gago J, Bustos-Caparros E, Knittel K, Amann R, Rossello-Mora R. Release LTP_12_2020, featuring a new ARB alignment and improved 16S rRNA tree for prokaryotic type strains. Syst Appl Microbiol 2021; 44:126218.
  • 🧍 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: Flavivirga Yi et al. 2012

Assigned by: Lee JH, Kang JW, Choe HN, Seong CN. Flavivirga eckloniae sp. nov. and Flavivirga aquimarina sp. nov., isolated from seaweed Ecklonia cava. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:3089-3094.

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Record number: 795662