Name: Ichthyobacterium seriolicida Takano et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: se.ri.o.li.ci.da. L. fem. n. Seriola, generic name of the yellowtail; L. masc. n. suff. -cida; from L. v. caedo, to kill; N.L. masc. n. seriolicida, yellowtail killer (nominative in apposition)

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC BAA-2465; JBKA-6; JCM 18228

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB713897 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Takano T, Matsuyama T, Sakai T, Nakamura Y, Kamaishi T, Nakayasu C, Kondo H, Hirono I, Fukuda Y, Sorimachi M, et al. Ichthyobacterium seriolicida gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the phylum 'Bacteroidetes', isolated from yellowtail fish (Seriola quinqueradiata) affected by bacterial haemolytic jaundice, and proposal of a new family, Ichthyobacteriaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:580-586.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1916-1919.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Ichthyobacterium Takano et al. 2016. Publication: Takano T, Matsuyama T, Sakai T, Nakamura Y, Kamaishi T, Nakayasu C, Kondo H, Hirono I, Fukuda Y, Sorimachi M, et al. Ichthyobacterium seriolicida gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the phylum 'Bacteroidetes', isolated from yellowtail fish (Seriola quinqueradiata) affected by bacterial haemolytic jaundice, and proposal of a new family, Ichthyobacteriaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:580-586.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "t2".
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 4 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 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: Ichthyobacterium Takano et al. 2016

Assigned by: Takano T, Matsuyama T, Sakai T, Nakamura Y, Kamaishi T, Nakayasu C, Kondo H, Hirono I, Fukuda Y, Sorimachi M, et al. Ichthyobacterium seriolicida gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the phylum 'Bacteroidetes', isolated from yellowtail fish (Seriola quinqueradiata) affected by bacterial haemolytic jaundice, and proposal of a new family, Ichthyobacteriaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:580-586.

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