Name: Leeuwenhoekiella nanhaiensis Liu et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

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

Gender: 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.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

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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