Name: Gramella portivictoriae Lau et al. 2005

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: por.ti.vic.to’ri.ae. L. gen. masc. n. portus, harbour; L. gen. fem. n. victoriae, of Victoria; N.L. gen. fem. n. portivictoriae, from/of Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong, the source of isolation of the type strain

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … por-ti-wik-TO-ri-a͡e, feminine

Type strain: DSM 23547; JCM 13192; NBRC 101534; NRRL B-41137; UST040801-001

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16S rRNA gene: AB681471 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Lau SC, Tsoi MM, Li X, Plakhotnikova I, Dobretsov S, Wong PK, Qian PY. Gramella portivictoriae sp. nov., a novel member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from marine sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:2497-2500. 🇭🇰

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 55, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:319-321.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Christiangramia portivictoriae (Lau et al. 2005) Deshmukh and Oren 2023

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Christiangramia portivictoriae (Lau et al. 2005) Deshmukh and Oren 2023	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Emendations:
  • Panschin et al. 2016 Panschin I, Huang S, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Rohde M, Verbarg S, Lapidus A, Han J, Trong S, Haynes M, et al. Comparing polysaccharide decomposition between the type strains Gramella echinicola KMM 6050^T (DSM 19838^T) and Gramella portivictoriae UST040801-001^T (DSM 23547^T), and emended description of Gramella echinicola Nedashkovskaya et al. 2005 emend. Shahina et al. 2014 and Gramella portivictoriae Lau et al. 2005. Stand Genomic Sci 2016; 11:37. 🇩🇪 Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 25. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:7-8.

• 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 9 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
  • 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project. Publication: 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. 🇩🇪
  • 🧍 In the paper by Lau et al. 2005, the type strain NRRL B-41137 is erroneously cited as NRRL 41137. Publication: Xie CH, Yokota A. Erratum. Reclassification of Alcaligenes latus strains IAM 12599T and IAM 12664 and Pseudomonas saccharophila as Azohydromonas lata gen. nov., comb. nov., Azohydromonas australica sp. nov. and Pelomonas saccharophila gen. nov., comb. nov., respectively. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2006; 56:497. 🇯🇵

Parent taxon: Gramella Nedashkovskaya et al. 2005

Assigned by: Lau SC, Tsoi MM, Li X, Plakhotnikova I, Dobretsov S, Wong PK, Qian PY. Gramella portivictoriae sp. nov., a novel member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from marine sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:2497-2500. 🇭🇰

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