Name: Labilibacter aurantiacus Lu et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: au.ran.ti’a.cus. N.L. masc. adj. aurantiacus, orange-coloured

Gender: masculine

Type strain: HQYD1; KCTC 42583; MCCC 1K02304

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: JF721990 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Lu DC, Zhao JX, Wang FQ, Xie ZH, Du ZJ. Labilibacter aurantiacus gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from sea squirt (Styela clava) and reclassification of Saccharicrinis marinus as Labilibacter marinus comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:441-446.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1099-1101.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Saccharicrinis aurantiacus (Lu et al. 2017) García-López et al. 2020

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Saccharicrinis aurantiacus (Lu et al. 2017) García-López et al. 2020	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Labilibacter Lu et al. 2017. Publication: Lu DC, Zhao JX, Wang FQ, Xie ZH, Du ZJ. Labilibacter aurantiacus gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from sea squirt (Styela clava) and reclassification of Saccharicrinis marinus as Labilibacter marinus comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:441-446.
  • ❗ Labilibacter aurantiacus 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 Labilibacter.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 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: Labilibacter Lu et al. 2017

Assigned by: Lu DC, Zhao JX, Wang FQ, Xie ZH, Du ZJ. Labilibacter aurantiacus gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from sea squirt (Styela clava) and reclassification of Saccharicrinis marinus as Labilibacter marinus comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:441-446.

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