Name: Marmoricola aequoreus Lee 2007

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ae.qu.o.re’us. L. masc. adj. aequoreus, belonging to the sea, referring to the isolation of the type strain from the sea

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 21547; JCM 13812; NRRL B-24464; SST-45

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AM295338 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Lee SD. Marmoricola aequoreus sp. nov., a novel actinobacterium isolated from marine sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1391-1395.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2189-2190.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Nocardioides aequoreus (Lee 2007) Wang et al. 2023

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Nocardioides aequoreus (Lee 2007) Wang et al. 2023	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ❗ Marmoricola aequoreus 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 Marmoricola.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 5 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Nouioui et al. (2018). Publication: Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007.

Parent taxon: Marmoricola Urzì et al. 2000

Assigned by: Lee SD. Marmoricola aequoreus sp. nov., a novel actinobacterium isolated from marine sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1391-1395.

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Record number: 786481