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

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: for-MO-sa ha-li-O-tis, 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 = 104).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2026-08-13. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 5 times in PubMed until 2026-06-11.
  • 🧍 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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