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Name: Maribacter forsetii Barbeyron et al. 2008

Category, proposed as: species, sp. nov.

Etymology: for.se’ti.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. forsetii, of Forseti, a god in Scandinavian mythology that lived on Helgoland, the German island from where the bacterium was isolated

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: ma-ri-BAK-ter for-SE-ti-i, masculine

Type strain: CIP 109504; DSM 18668; KT02ds18-6

16S rRNA gene: AM712900 Analysetree FASTA download

Valid publication: Barbeyron T, Carpentier F, L'haridon S, Schuler M, Michel G, Amann R. Description of Maribacter forsetii sp. nov., a marine Flavobacteriaceae isolated from North Sea water, and emended description of the genus Maribacter. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:790-797. 🇫🇷

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 58, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1513-1514.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

  • Notes:
    • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2026-08-13. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
    • 🎓 Name mentioned 6 times in PubMed until 2026-06-11.
    • 🧍 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: Maribacter Nedashkovskaya et al. 2004

Assigned by: Barbeyron T, Carpentier F, L'haridon S, Schuler M, Michel G, Amann R. Description of Maribacter forsetii sp. nov., a marine Flavobacteriaceae isolated from North Sea water, and emended description of the genus Maribacter. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:790-797. 🇫🇷

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Record number: 787308