Name: Mariniradius saccharolyticus Bhumika et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: sac.cha.ro.ly’ti.cus. Gr. neut. n. sakchar, sugar; N.L. masc. adj. lyticus, able to loosen, able to dissolve; from Gr. masc. adj. lytikos, dissolving; N.L. masc. adj. saccharolyticus, breaking up polysaccharides

Gender: masculine

Type strain: AK6; DSM 25051; JCM 17389; MTCC 11279

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: FR687202 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Bhumika V, Srinivas TN, Ravinder K, Kumar PA. Mariniradius saccharolyticus gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Cyclobacteriaceae isolated from marine aquaculture pond water, and emended descriptions of the genus Aquiflexum and Aquiflexum balticum. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2088-2094.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3135-3137.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Hahnke et al. 2016 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. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 26. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2081-2086.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Mariniradius Bhumika et al. 2013. Publication: Bhumika V, Srinivas TN, Ravinder K, Kumar PA. Mariniradius saccharolyticus gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Cyclobacteriaceae isolated from marine aquaculture pond water, and emended descriptions of the genus Aquiflexum and Aquiflexum balticum. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2088-2094.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 4 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 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: Mariniradius Bhumika et al. 2013

Assigned by: Bhumika V, Srinivas TN, Ravinder K, Kumar PA. Mariniradius saccharolyticus gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Cyclobacteriaceae isolated from marine aquaculture pond water, and emended descriptions of the genus Aquiflexum and Aquiflexum balticum. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2088-2094.

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