Name: Formosa haliotis Tanaka et al. 2015

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ha.li.o’tis. N.L. gen. fem. n. haliotis, named after the scientific name of the abalone Haliotis

Gender: feminine

Type strain: LMG 28520; NBRC 111189

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: LC005522 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Tanaka R, Cleenwerck I, Mizutani Y, Iehata S, Shibata T, Miyake H, Mori T, Tamaru Y, Ueda M, Bossier P, et al. Formosa haliotis sp. nov., a brown-alga-degrading bacterium isolated from the gut of the abalone Haliotis gigantea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:4388-4393.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 65, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1600-1602.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.05795 (N = 83).
  • 😷 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.
  • 🧍 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: Formosa Ivanova et al. 2004

Assigned by: Tanaka R, Cleenwerck I, Mizutani Y, Iehata S, Shibata T, Miyake H, Mori T, Tamaru Y, Ueda M, Bossier P, et al. Formosa haliotis sp. nov., a brown-alga-degrading bacterium isolated from the gut of the abalone Haliotis gigantea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:4388-4393.

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