Name: Leisingera caerulea (Vandecandelaere et al. 2009) Breider et al. 2014

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Phaeobacter caeruleus Vandecandelaere et al. 2009

Etymology: cae.ru’le.a. L. fem. adj. caerulea, dark blue colored, referring to the colony color of the isolates

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CCUG 55859; DSM 24564; LMG 24369

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KC176242 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Breider S, Scheuner C, Schumann P, Fiebig A, Petersen J, Pradella S, Klenk HP, Brinkhoff T, Goker M. Genome-scale data suggest reclassifications in the Leisingera-Phaeobacter cluster including proposals for Sedimentitalea gen. nov. and Pseudophaeobacter gen. nov. Front Microbiol 2014; 5:416.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 160. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3603-3606.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Phaeobacter caeruleus Vandecandelaere et al. 2009	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Hördt et al. (2020). Publication: Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468.

Parent taxon: Leisingera Schaefer et al. 2002

Assigned by: Breider S, Scheuner C, Schumann P, Fiebig A, Petersen J, Pradella S, Klenk HP, Brinkhoff T, Goker M. Genome-scale data suggest reclassifications in the Leisingera-Phaeobacter cluster including proposals for Sedimentitalea gen. nov. and Pseudophaeobacter gen. nov. Front Microbiol 2014; 5:416.

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Record number: 792266