Name: Lutibacter agarilyticus Park et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: a.ga.ri.ly’ti.cus. N.L. neut. n. agarum, agar-agar, algal polysaccharide; N.L. adj. lyticus -a -um, able to loose, able to dissolve; from Gr. adj. lytikos -ê -on, able to loosen, able to dissolve; N.L. masc. adj. agarilyticus, agar-dissolving

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 29150; JCM 18281; KCTC 23842; KYW566

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: JN864028 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Park SC, Choe HN, Hwang YM, Baik KS, Seong CN. Lutibacter agarilyticus sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from shallow coastal seawater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2678-2683.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3549-3550.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • García-López et al. 2019 Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083. 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:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.10889 (N = 45).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Lutibacter Choi and Cho 2006

Assigned by: Park SC, Choe HN, Hwang YM, Baik KS, Seong CN. Lutibacter agarilyticus sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from shallow coastal seawater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2678-2683.

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