Name: Loktanella cinnabarina Tsubouchi et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: cin.na.ba.ri’na. L. neut. n. cinnabar (gen. cinnabaris), cinnabar; L. adj. suff. -inus -a -um, suffix used with the sense of belonging to; N.L. fem. adj. cinnabarina, belonging to cinnabar, referring to the vermilion colour of the cells

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CECT 8072; DSM 29954; JCM 18161; LL-001

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB688112 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Tsubouchi T, Shimane Y, Mori K, Miyazaki M, Tame A, Uematsu K, Maruyama T, Hatada Y. Loktanella cinnabarina sp. nov., isolated from a deep subseafloor sediment, and emended description of the genus Loktanella. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1390-1395.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2368-2370.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Limimaricola cinnabarinus (Tsubouchi et al. 2013) Wirth and Whitman 2018

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Limimaricola cinnabarinus (Tsubouchi et al. 2013) Wirth and Whitman 2018	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• 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:
  • ❗ Loktanella cinnabarina is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Loktanella.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 7 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Loktanella Van Trappen et al. 2004

Assigned by: Tsubouchi T, Shimane Y, Mori K, Miyazaki M, Tame A, Uematsu K, Maruyama T, Hatada Y. Loktanella cinnabarina sp. nov., isolated from a deep subseafloor sediment, and emended description of the genus Loktanella. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1390-1395.

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Record number: 790662