Name: Gillisia limnaea Van Trappen et al. 2004

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: lim.nae’a. Gr. masc. adj. limnaîos, of or from the marsh; N.L. fem. adj. limnaea, living in the water, referring to the isolation source, microbial mats in Lake Fryxell

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 15749; LMG 21470; R-8282

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AJ440991 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Van Trappen S, Vandecandelaere I, Mergaert J, Swings J. Gillisia limnaea gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from a microbial mat in Lake Fryxell, Antarctica. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:445-448.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 54, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1007-1009.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Hahnke et al. 2016 Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:2003. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 26. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2081-2086.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Gillisia Van Trappen et al. 2004. Publication: Van Trappen S, Vandecandelaere I, Mergaert J, Swings J. Gillisia limnaea gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from a microbial mat in Lake Fryxell, Antarctica. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:445-448.
  • 😢 The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. Contrasting the term "chemotaxonomic" with "phenotypic" is not recommended. Whether taxa can have "members" is debatable. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details. Publication: Göker M. What can genome analysis offer for bacteria? In: Bridge P, Smith D, Stackebrandt E (eds), Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi, CAB International, Wallingford, 2021, p. 255-281.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project. Publication: Riedel T, Held B, Nolan M, Lucas S, Lapidus A, Tice H, Del Rio TG, Cheng JF, Han C, Tapia R, et al. Genome sequence of the Antarctic rhodopsins-containing flavobacterium Gillisia limnaea type strain (R-8282^T). Stand Genomic Sci 2012; 7:107-119.

Parent taxon: Gillisia Van Trappen et al. 2004

Assigned by: Van Trappen S, Vandecandelaere I, Mergaert J, Swings J. Gillisia limnaea gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from a microbial mat in Lake Fryxell, Antarctica. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:445-448.

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