Name: Leeuwenhoekiella nanhaiensis Liu et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: nan.hai.en’sis. N.L. fem. adj. nanhaiensis, of or pertaining to Nanhai (the Chinese name for the South China Sea), from where the type strain was isolated

Pronunciation, gender: nan-hai-EN-sis, feminine

Type strain: CCTCC AB 2015204; G18; KCTC 42729

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KR809379 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Liu Q, Li J, Wei B, Zhang X, Zhang L, Zhang Y, Fang J. Leeuwenhoekiella nanhaiensis sp. nov., isolated from deep-sea water. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1352-1357.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2126-2128.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • García-López et al. 2019 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. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.
  • Tahon et al. 2020 Tahon G, Lebbe L, De Troch M, Sabbe K, Willems A. Leeuwenhoekiella aestuarii sp. nov., isolated from salt-water sediment and first insights in the genomes of Leeuwenhoekiella species. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:1706-1719. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 70, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3583-3587.

• 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 2 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.

Parent taxon: Leeuwenhoekiella Nedashkovskaya et al. 2005

Assigned by: Liu Q, Li J, Wei B, Zhang X, Zhang L, Zhang Y, Fang J. Leeuwenhoekiella nanhaiensis sp. nov., isolated from deep-sea water. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1352-1357.

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