Name: Floricoccus penangensis Chuah et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: pe.nang.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. penangensis, of Penang, named after the northern state in Malaysia, from where the species was isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: HibF3; JCM 31735; LMG 29831

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KX185708 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Chuah LO, Yap KP, Shamila-Syuhada AK, Thong KL, Ahmad R, Liong MT, Rusul G. Floricoccus tropicus gen. nov., sp. nov. and Floricoccus penangensis sp. nov. isolated from fresh flowers of durian tree and hibiscus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:4979-4985.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:695-697.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😩 Deposit incorrectly indicated in some sources as representing the type strain of this taxon: DSM 31735.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 4 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 In the abstract and the protologue of the original description, the collection number of the type strain was erroneously given as DSM 31735 instead of JCM 31735 - a corrigendum was published. Publication: Chuah LO, Yap KP, Shamila-Syuhada AK, Thong KL, Ahmad R, Liong MT, Rusul G. Corrigendum: Floricoccus tropicus gen. nov., sp. nov. and Floricoccus penangensis sp. nov. isolated from fresh flowers of durian tree and hibiscus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:974.

Parent taxon: Floricoccus Chuah et al. 2017

Assigned by: Chuah LO, Yap KP, Shamila-Syuhada AK, Thong KL, Ahmad R, Liong MT, Rusul G. Floricoccus tropicus gen. nov., sp. nov. and Floricoccus penangensis sp. nov. isolated from fresh flowers of durian tree and hibiscus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:4979-4985.

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