Name: Oceanicella actignis Albuquerque et al. 2012

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: act.i.gnis. L. fem. n. acta (gen. actae), sea-shore, sea-beach; L. masc. n. ignis, fire (also as genitive); N.L. gen. masc. n. actignis, of beach of fire, because the organism was isolated from a beach called Praia do Fogo meaning Beach of Fire

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 22673; LMG 25334; PRQ-67

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: JQ864435 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Albuquerque L, Rainey FA, Nobre MF, da Costa MS. Oceanicella actignis gen. nov., sp. nov., a halophilic slightly thermophilic member of the Alphaproteobacteria. Syst Appl Microbiol 2012; 35:385-389.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 148. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2549-2554.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Pleomorphobacterium xiamenense Yin et al. 2013	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Emendations:
  • Hördt et al. 2020 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. 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:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Oceanicella Albuquerque et al. 2012. Publication: Albuquerque L, Rainey FA, Nobre MF, da Costa MS. Oceanicella actignis gen. nov., sp. nov., a halophilic slightly thermophilic member of the Alphaproteobacteria. Syst Appl Microbiol 2012; 35:385-389.
  • ⏰ According to Huang et al. (2017), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of Pleomorphobacterium xiamenense Yin et al. 2013. Publication: Huang Z, Lai Q, Shao Z. Pleomorphobacterium xiamenense Yin et al. 2013 is a later heterotypic synonym of Oceanicella actignis Albuquerque et al. 2012. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:3532-3534.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Oceanicella Albuquerque et al. 2012

Assigned by: Albuquerque L, Rainey FA, Nobre MF, da Costa MS. Oceanicella actignis gen. nov., sp. nov., a halophilic slightly thermophilic member of the Alphaproteobacteria. Syst Appl Microbiol 2012; 35:385-389.

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