Name: Lutibacter profundi Le Moine Bauer et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: pro.fun’di L. gen. neut. n. profundi, of/from the depths of the sea

Gender: masculine

Type strains: DSM 100437; LP1

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KP704270 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Le Moine Bauer S, Roalkvam I, Steen IH, Dahle H. Lutibacter profundi sp. nov., isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal system on the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge and emended description of the genus Lutibacter. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2671-2677.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3769-3770.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by García-López et al. (2019). Publication: 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.

Parent taxon: Lutibacter Choi and Cho 2006

Assigned by: Le Moine Bauer S, Roalkvam I, Steen IH, Dahle H. Lutibacter profundi sp. nov., isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal system on the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge and emended description of the genus Lutibacter. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2671-2677.

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