Name: Gramella forsetii Panschin et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: for.se’ti.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. forsetii, of Forseti, the god of justice and reconciliation in Scandinavian mythology who presided at the Thing and is associated with Helgoland, the German island from where the bacterium was isolated

Pronunciation, gender: for-SE-ti-i, feminine

Type strain: CGMCC 1.15422; DSM 17595; KT0803

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AF235117 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Panschin I, Becher M, Verbarg S, Sproer C, Rohde M, Schuler M, Amann RI, Harder J, Tindall BJ, Hahnke RL. Description of Gramella forsetii sp. nov., a marine Flavobacteriaceae isolated from North Sea water, and emended description of Gramella gaetbulicola Cho et al. 2011. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:697-703.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1621-1622.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Christiangramia forsetii (Panschin et al. 2017) Deshmukh and Oren 2023

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Christiangramia forsetii (Panschin et al. 2017) Deshmukh and Oren 2023	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 😷 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 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: Gramella Nedashkovskaya et al. 2005

Assigned by: Panschin I, Becher M, Verbarg S, Sproer C, Rohde M, Schuler M, Amann RI, Harder J, Tindall BJ, Hahnke RL. Description of Gramella forsetii sp. nov., a marine Flavobacteriaceae isolated from North Sea water, and emended description of Gramella gaetbulicola Cho et al. 2011. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:697-703.

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Record number: 791915