Name: Hyphococcus luteus Ye et al. 2025

Category: Species

Proposed as: nom. nov.

Etymology: lu’te.us. L. masc. adj. luteus, yellow

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … LU-te-us, masculine

Type strain: KCTC 62156; MCCC 1K03432; SY-3-19

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KY861741 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Ye YQ, Zhang XY, Gong HN, Ye MQ, Du ZJ. Description of Hyphococcus formosus sp. nov. and Hyphococcus lacteus sp. nov., isolated from coastal sediment, and reclassification of Marinicaulis flavus as Hyphococcus luteus nom. nov. and Marinicaulis aureus as Hyphococcus aureus comb. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2025; 48:126575. 🇨🇳

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 223. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6699.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Marinicaulis flavus Yu et al. 2018	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.08613 (N = 2).
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2025-06-03.

Parent taxon: Hyphococcus Sun et al. 2017

Assigned by: Ye YQ, Zhang XY, Gong HN, Ye MQ, Du ZJ. Description of Hyphococcus formosus sp. nov. and Hyphococcus lacteus sp. nov., isolated from coastal sediment, and reclassification of Marinicaulis flavus as Hyphococcus luteus nom. nov. and Marinicaulis aureus as Hyphococcus aureus comb. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2025; 48:126575. 🇨🇳

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Record number: 55745