Name: Maripseudobacter aurantiacus Chen et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: au.ran.ti.a’cus. N.L. masc. adj. aurantiacus, orange-coloured, referring to the orange colour of the colonies

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CDA 4; KCTC 52409; MCCC 1K03210

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KX364240 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Chen C, Su Y, Tao T, Fu G, Zhang C, Sun C, Zhang X, Wu M. Maripseudobacter aurantiacus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from a sedimentation basin. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:778-783.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2079-2080.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Maribacter aurantiacus (Chen et al. 2017) Khan et al. 2020

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Maribacter aurantiacus (Chen et al. 2017) Khan et al. 2020	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Maripseudobacter Chen et al. 2017. Publication: Chen C, Su Y, Tao T, Fu G, Zhang C, Sun C, Zhang X, Wu M. Maripseudobacter aurantiacus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from a sedimentation basin. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:778-783.
  • ❗ Maripseudobacter aurantiacus 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 Maripseudobacter.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Maripseudobacter Chen et al. 2017

Assigned by: Chen C, Su Y, Tao T, Fu G, Zhang C, Sun C, Zhang X, Wu M. Maripseudobacter aurantiacus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from a sedimentation basin. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:778-783.

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