Name: Mesonia phycicola Kang and Lee 2010

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: phy.ci.co’la. Gr. neut. n. phŷkos, seaweed; L. masc./fem. n. suff. -cola, an inhabitant of a place, a resident; from L. masc./fem. n. incola, dweller; N.L. masc./fem. n. phycicola, an inhabitant of seaweed

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 21425; KCTC 22373; MDSW-25

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: FM882228 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kang HS, Lee SD. Mesonia phycicola sp. nov., isolated from seaweed, and emended description of the genus Mesonia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:591-594.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1253-1255.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • García-López et al. 2019 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. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.

• Notes:
  • 😷 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.

Parent taxon: Mesonia Nedashkovskaya et al. 2003

Assigned by: Kang HS, Lee SD. Mesonia phycicola sp. nov., isolated from seaweed, and emended description of the genus Mesonia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:591-594.

Linking: To permanently link to this page, use https://lpsn.dsmz.de/species/mesonia-phycicolaCopy to clipboardLink copied to clipboard

Record number: 788408