Name: Maribacter arcticus Cho et al. 2008

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: arc’ti.cus. L. masc. adj. arcticus, northern, pertaining to the Arctic, the geographical origin of the type strain

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 23546; JCM 14790; KCTC 22053; KOPRI 20941

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AY771762 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Cho KH, Hong SG, Cho HH, Lee YK, Chun J, Lee HK. Maribacter arcticus sp. nov., isolated from Arctic marine sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1300-1303.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 58, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1995-1996.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Weerawongwiwat et al. 2013 Weerawongwiwat V, Kang H, Jung MY, Kim W. Maribacter chungangensis sp. nov., isolated from a green seaweed, and emended descriptions of the genus Maribacter and Maribacter arcticus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2553-2558. 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.
  • 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 0.07961 (N = 98).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 7 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Maribacter Nedashkovskaya et al. 2004

Assigned by: Cho KH, Hong SG, Cho HH, Lee YK, Chun J, Lee HK. Maribacter arcticus sp. nov., isolated from Arctic marine sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1300-1303.

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