Name: Leeuwenhoekiella palythoae Nedashkovskaya et al. 2009

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: 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

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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.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

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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