Name: Marinococcus luteus Wang et al. 2009

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: lu’te.us. L. masc. adj. luteus, orange, referring to the colour of the colonies of the type strain

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CCTCC AA 208014; DSM 23126; KCTC 13214; YIM 91094

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB769483 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Wang Y, Cao LL, Tang SK, Lou K, Mao PH, Jin X, Jiang CL, Xu LH, Li WJ. Marinococcus luteus sp. nov., a halotolerant bacterium isolated from a salt lake, and emended description of the genus Marinococcus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2875-2879.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:269-270.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.24693 (N = 70).
  • 😷 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 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Marinococcus Hao et al. 1985

Assigned by: Wang Y, Cao LL, Tang SK, Lou K, Mao PH, Jin X, Jiang CL, Xu LH, Li WJ. Marinococcus luteus sp. nov., a halotolerant bacterium isolated from a salt lake, and emended description of the genus Marinococcus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2875-2879.

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Record number: 788191