Name: Mesonia mobilis Nedashkovskaya et al. 2006

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: mo’bi.lis. L. masc./fem. adj. mobilis, movable, mobile, referring to the ability to move by gliding

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 19841; KCTC 12708; KMM 6059; LMG 23670

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: MT758062 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Nedashkovskaya OI, Kim SB, Zhukova NV, Kwak J, Mikhailov VV, Bae KS. Mesonia mobilis sp. nov., isolated from seawater, and emended description of the genus Mesonia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:2433-2436.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 56, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2-3.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😢 The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. Contrasting the term "chemotaxonomic" with "phenotypic" is not recommended. Whether taxa can have "members" is debatable. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details. Publication: Göker M. What can genome analysis offer for bacteria? In: Bridge P, Smith D, Stackebrandt E (eds), Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi, CAB International, Wallingford, 2021, p. 255-281.
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.00674 (N = 108).
  • 😷 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 genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project. Publication: 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.

Parent taxon: Mesonia Nedashkovskaya et al. 2003

Assigned by: Nedashkovskaya OI, Kim SB, Zhukova NV, Kwak J, Mikhailov VV, Bae KS. Mesonia mobilis sp. nov., isolated from seawater, and emended description of the genus Mesonia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:2433-2436.

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