Name: Loktanella tamlensis Lee 2012

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: tam.len’sis. N.L. masc./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.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 5 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

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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Record number: 789726