Name: Marinicola seohaensis Yoon et al. 2005

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: seo.ha.en’sis. N.L. masc. adj. seohaensis, of or pertaining to Seohae, the Korean name for the Yellow Sea in Korea, from where the organism was isolated

Pronunciation, gender: seo-ha-EN-sis, masculine

Type strain: JCM 12600; KCTC 12312; SW-152

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AY739663 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Yoon JH, Kang SJ, Lee CH, Oh TK. Marinicola seohaensis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from sea water of the Yellow Sea, Korea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:859-863. 🇰🇷

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 55, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1399-1402.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Roseivirga ehrenbergii Nedashkovskaya et al. 2005

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Roseivirga seohaensis (Yoon et al. 2005) Lau et al. 2006	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Roseivirga seohaensis (Yoon et al. 2005) Selvaratnam et al. 2016	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name
    Roseivirga ehrenbergii Nedashkovskaya et al. 2005	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Marinicola Yoon et al. 2005. Publication: Yoon JH, Kang SJ, Lee CH, Oh TK. Marinicola seohaensis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from sea water of the Yellow Sea, Korea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:859-863. 🇰🇷
  • ⏲ According to Nedashkovskaya et al. (2008), this species is a later heterotypic synonym of Roseivirga ehrenbergii Nedashkovskaya et al. 2005. Publication: Nedashkovskaya OI, Kim SB, Lysenko AM, Kalinovskaya NI, Mikhailov VV. Reclassification of Roseivirga seohaensis (Yoon et al. 2005) Lau et al. 2006 as a later synonym of Roseivirga ehrenbergii Nedashkovskaya et al. 2005 and emendation of the species description. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1194-1197. 🇷🇺
  • ❗ Marinicola seohaensis is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Marinicola.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. 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 4 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
  • 🧍 According to Nedashkovskaya et al. (2005) and Lau et al. (2006) Marinicola soehaensis should be placed into the genus Roseivirga. Publication: Nedashkovskaya OI, Kim SB, Lee DH, Lysenko AM, Shevchenko LS, Frolova GM, Mikhailov VV, Lee KH, Bae KS. Roseivirga ehrenbergii gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium of the phylum 'Bacteroidetes', isolated from the green alga Ulva fenestrata. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:231-234. 🇷🇺
  • 🧍 Nedashkovskaya et al. 2005 found that the level of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity between Marinicola seohaensis SW-152 (the type strain of the type species of the genus Marinicola) and Roseivirga ehrenbergii KMM 6017 (the type strain of the type species of the genus Roseivirga) is 99.8%. On the basis of the phylogenetic relationship Nedashkovskaya et al. propose that the genus Marinicola be a later heterotypic synonym of the genus Roseivirga. According to these authors, this conclusion is supported by the results of genomic, chemotaxonomic and phenotypic analyses, which revealed many common features between members of the genera Marinicola and Roseivirga. Nedashkovskaya et al. provide an emended description of the genus Roseivirga to include the phenotypic characters of Marinicola seohaensis. However, Nedashkovskaya et al. do not make a formal proposal to reclassify Marinicola seohaensis. The formal reclassification of Marinicola seohaensis in the genus Roseivirga Nedashkovskaya et al. 2005 was proposed by Lau et al. 2006 (see below) [2]. Publication: Nedashkovskaya OI, Kim SB, Lysenko AM, Park MS, Mikhailov VV, Bae KS, Park HY. Roseivirga echinicomitans sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium isolated from the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus intermedius, and emended description of the genus Roseivirga. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1797-1800. 🇷🇺
  • 🧍 See also: Publication: Lau SC, Tsoi MM, Li X, Plakhotnikova I, Dobretsov S, Wu M, Wong PK, Pawlik JR, Qian PY. Description of Fabibacter halotolerans gen. nov., sp. nov. and Roseivirga spongicola sp. nov., and reclassification of [Marinicola] seohaensis as Roseivirga seohaensis comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1059-1065. 🇭🇰

Parent taxon: Marinicola Yoon et al. 2005

Assigned by: Yoon JH, Kang SJ, Lee CH, Oh TK. Marinicola seohaensis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from sea water of the Yellow Sea, Korea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:859-863. 🇰🇷

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