Name: Loktanella koreensis Weon et al. 2006

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ko.re.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. koreensis, pertaining to Korea, from where the type strain was isolated

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CIP 109899; DSM 17925; GA2-M3; KACC 11519

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: DQ344498 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Weon HY, Kim BY, Yoo SH, Kim JS, Kwon SW, Go SJ, Stackebrandt E. Loktanella koreensis sp. nov., isolated from sea sand in Korea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:2199-2202.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 56, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:2725-2726.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Cognatiyoonia koreensis (Weon et al. 2006) Wirth and Whitman 2018

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Cognatiyoonia koreensis (Weon et al. 2006) 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 koreensis 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 4 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Loktanella Van Trappen et al. 2004

Assigned by: Weon HY, Kim BY, Yoo SH, Kim JS, Kwon SW, Go SJ, Stackebrandt E. Loktanella koreensis sp. nov., isolated from sea sand in Korea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:2199-2202.

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Record number: 785415