Name: Fulvimarina pelagi Cho and Giovannoni 2003

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: pe’la.gi. L. gen. neut. n. pelagi, from the open sea

Pronunciation, gender: PE-la-gi, feminine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-666; DSM 15513; HTCC 2506; KCTC 12091

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16S rRNA gene: LC066395 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Cho JC, Giovannoni SJ. Fulvimarina pelagi gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine bacterium that forms a deep evolutionary lineage of descent in the order "Rhizobiales". Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1853-1859.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 53, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:309-311.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Rathsack et al. 2011 Rathsack K, Reitner J, Stackebrandt E, Tindall BJ. Reclassification of Aurantimonas altamirensis (Jurado et al. 2006), Aurantimonas ureilytica (Weon et al. 2007) and Aurantimonas frigidaquae (Kim et al. 2008) as members of a new genus, Aureimonas gen. nov., as Aureimonas altamirensis gen. nov., comb. nov., Aureimonas ureilytica comb. nov. and Aureimonas frigidaquae comb. nov., and emended descriptions of the genera Aurantimonas and Fulvimarina. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:2722-2728. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 61, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:261-262.
  • Hördt et al. 2020 Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Fulvimarina Cho and Giovannoni 2003. Publication: Cho JC, Giovannoni SJ. Fulvimarina pelagi gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine bacterium that forms a deep evolutionary lineage of descent in the order "Rhizobiales". Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1853-1859.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. 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 10 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
  • 🧍 The specific epithet pelagi is a L. gen. n. not a L. fem. adj. as cited in the paper by Cho and Giovannoni 2003. Publication: Euzeby JP. List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:590-592.

Parent taxon: Fulvimarina Cho and Giovannoni 2003

Assigned by: Cho JC, Giovannoni SJ. Fulvimarina pelagi gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine bacterium that forms a deep evolutionary lineage of descent in the order "Rhizobiales". Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1853-1859.

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