Name: Labilibaculum antarcticum Watanabe et al. 2020

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ant.arc’ti.cum. L. neut. adj. antarcticum, southern, belonging to Antarctica

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … ant-ARK-ti-kum, neuter

Type strain: CECT 9460; NBRC 111151; SPP2

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16S rRNA gene: LC085518 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Watanabe M, Kojima H, Fukui M. Labilibaculum antarcticum sp. nov., a novel facultative anaerobic, psychrotorelant bacterium isolated from marine sediment of Antarctica. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2020; 113:349-355. 🇯🇵

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 194. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4043-4049.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Marinifilum antarcticum" (Watanabe et al. 2020) Zhang et al. 2025	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2025-06-04.

Parent taxon: Labilibaculum Vandieken et al. 2019

Assigned by: Watanabe M, Kojima H, Fukui M. Labilibaculum antarcticum sp. nov., a novel facultative anaerobic, psychrotorelant bacterium isolated from marine sediment of Antarctica. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2020; 113:349-355. 🇯🇵

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Record number: 3356