Name: Maribacter dokdonensis Yoon et al. 2005

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: dok.do.nen’sis N.L. masc./fem. adj. dokdonensis, pertaining to Dokdo, the Korean island from wrere the strains were isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strains: DSM 17201; DSW-8; KCTC 12393

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AY960749 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Yoon JH, Kang SJ, Lee SY, Lee CH, Oh TK. Maribacter dokdonensis sp. nov., isolated from sea water off a Korean island, Dokdo. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:2051-2055.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 55, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:7-9.

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.
  • The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Hahnke et al. (2016). Publication: Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:2003.

Parent taxon: Maribacter Nedashkovskaya et al. 2004

Assigned by: Yoon JH, Kang SJ, Lee SY, Lee CH, Oh TK. Maribacter dokdonensis sp. nov., isolated from sea water off a Korean island, Dokdo. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:2051-2055.

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