Name: Litoreibacter janthinus Romanenko et al. 2011

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: jan.thi.nus. L. masc. adj. janthinus, violet-blue

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 26921; JCM 16492; KMM 3842; NRIC 772

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB518880 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Romanenko LA, Tanaka N, Frolova GM, Svetashev VI, Mikhailov VV. Litoreibacter albidus gen. nov., sp. nov. and Litoreibacter janthinus sp. nov., members of the class Alphaproteobacteria isolated from the seashore. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:148-154.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 61, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:701-702.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Hördt et al. 2020 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. 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.

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 4 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Litoreibacter Romanenko et al. 2011

Assigned by: Romanenko LA, Tanaka N, Frolova GM, Svetashev VI, Mikhailov VV. Litoreibacter albidus gen. nov., sp. nov. and Litoreibacter janthinus sp. nov., members of the class Alphaproteobacteria isolated from the seashore. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:148-154.

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