Name: Glaciecola mesophila Romanenko et al. 2003

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: me.so’phi.la. Gr. masc. adj. mesos, medium; N.L. adj. philus -a -um, friend, loving; from Gr. adj. philos -ê -on, loving; N.L. fem. adj. mesophila, medium-temperature-loving, mesophilic

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 15026; KMM 241

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AJ488501 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Romanenko LA, Zhukova NV, Rohde M, Lysenko AM, Mikhailov VV, Stackebrandt E. Glaciecola mesophila sp. nov., a novel marine agar-digesting bacterium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:647-651.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 53, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1221-1222.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Paraglaciecola mesophila (Romanenko et al. 2003) Shivaji and Reddy 2014

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Paraglaciecola mesophila (Romanenko et al. 2003) Shivaji and Reddy 2014	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ❗ Glaciecola mesophila is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Glaciecola.
  • 😷 The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 10 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Glaciecola Bowman et al. 1998

Assigned by: Romanenko LA, Zhukova NV, Rohde M, Lysenko AM, Mikhailov VV, Stackebrandt E. Glaciecola mesophila sp. nov., a novel marine agar-digesting bacterium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:647-651.

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