Name: Oceanibaculum nanhaiense Du et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: nan.hai.en’se. N.L. neut. adj. nanhaiense, pertaining to Nanhai, the Chinese name for the South China Sea, where the type strain was isolated

Gender: neuter

Type strain: KCTC 52312; L54-1-50; MCCC 1A05150

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KX870046 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Du Y, Liu X, Lai Q, Li W, Sun F, Shao Z. Oceanibaculum nanhaiense sp. nov., isolated from surface seawater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:4842-4845.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:471-473.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Hördt et al. (2020). Publication: Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468.

Parent taxon: Oceanibaculum Lai et al. 2009

Assigned by: Du Y, Liu X, Lai Q, Li W, Sun F, Shao Z. Oceanibaculum nanhaiense sp. nov., isolated from surface seawater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:4842-4845.

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