Name: Loktanella pyoseonensis Moon et al. 2010

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: pyo.se.o.nen’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. pyoseonensis, pertaining to Pyoseon Beach, Jeju, Republic of Korea, where the type strain was isolated

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 21424; JJM85; KCTC 22372

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AM983542 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Moon YG, Seo SH, Lee SD, Heo MS. Loktanella pyoseonensis sp. nov., isolated from beach sand, and emended description of the genus Loktanella. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:785-789.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1480-1481.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Limimaricola pyoseonensis (Moon et al. 2010) Wirth and Whitman 2018

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Limimaricola pyoseonensis (Moon et al. 2010) 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 pyoseonensis is the correct name 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.

Parent taxon: Loktanella Van Trappen et al. 2004

Assigned by: Moon YG, Seo SH, Lee SD, Heo MS. Loktanella pyoseonensis sp. nov., isolated from beach sand, and emended description of the genus Loktanella. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:785-789.

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