Name: Loktanella tamlensis Lee 2012

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: tam.len’sis. N.L. fem. adj. tamlensis, of or belonging to Tamla, the old name of Jeju, Republic of Korea, referring to the site where the type strain was isolated

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 26879; JCM 14020; KCTC 12722; SSW-35

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: DQ533556 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Lee SD. Loktanella tamlensis sp. nov., isolated from seawater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:586-590.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 62, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1221-1222.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Yoonia tamlensis (Lee 2012) Wirth and Whitman 2018

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Yoonia tamlensis (Lee 2012) 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 tamlensis 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. — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 5 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.

Parent taxon: Loktanella Van Trappen et al. 2004

Assigned by: Lee SD. Loktanella tamlensis sp. nov., isolated from seawater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:586-590.

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