Name: Lewinella antarctica Oh et al. 2009

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ant.arc’ti.ca. L. fem. adj. antarctica, southern and, by extension, of the Antarctic, where the type strain was isolated

Gender: feminine

Type strain: IMCC 3223; KCCM 42688; NBRC 103142

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EF554367 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Oh HM, Lee K, Cho JC. Lewinella antarctica sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from Antarctic seawater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:65-68.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:645-646.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Neolewinella antarctica (Oh et al. 2009) Huang et al. 2022	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 😢 The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. Contrasting the term "chemotaxonomic" with "phenotypic" is not recommended. Whether taxa can have "members" is debatable. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details. Publication: Göker M. What can genome analysis offer for bacteria? In: Bridge P, Smith D, Stackebrandt E (eds), Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi, CAB International, Wallingford, 2021, p. 255-281.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Lewinella Sly et al. 1998

Assigned by: Oh HM, Lee K, Cho JC. Lewinella antarctica sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from Antarctic seawater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:65-68.

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Record number: 787681