Name: Leeuwenhoekiella palythoae Nedashkovskaya et al. 2009

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: pa.ly.tho.ae. N.L. gen. fem. n. palythoae, of Palythoa, the genus of coral from which the type strain was isolated

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 19859; KCTC 22020; KMM 6264; LMG 24856

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: FJ405187 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Nedashkovskaya OI, Vancanneyt M, Kim SB, Zhukova NV, Han JH, Mikhailov VV. Leeuwenhoekiella palythoae sp. nov., a new member of the family Flavobacteriaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:3074-3077.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:473-474.

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: Nedashkovskaya OI, Vancanneyt M, Kim SB, Zhukova NV, Han JH, Mikhailov VV. Leeuwenhoekiella palythoae sp. nov., a new member of the family Flavobacteriaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:3074-3077.

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Record number: 788288