Name: Oceanicola batsensis Cho and Giovannoni 2004

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ba.tsen’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. batsensis, from BATS, an abbreviation for Bermuda Atlantic Timeseries Study site

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-863; DSM 15984; HTCC 2597; KCTC 12145

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: DQ915615 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Cho JC, Giovannoni SJ. Oceanicola granulosus gen. nov., sp. nov. and Oceanicola batsensis sp. nov., poly-beta-hydroxybutyrate-producing marine bacteria in the order 'Rhodobacterales'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1129-1136.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 54, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1911-1913.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Pseudooceanicola batsensis (Cho and Giovannoni 2004) Lai et al. 2015

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Pseudooceanicola batsensis (Cho and Giovannoni 2004) Lai et al. 2015	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ❗ Oceanicola batsensis 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 Oceanicola.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 10 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Oceanicola Cho and Giovannoni 2004

Assigned by: Cho JC, Giovannoni SJ. Oceanicola granulosus gen. nov., sp. nov. and Oceanicola batsensis sp. nov., poly-beta-hydroxybutyrate-producing marine bacteria in the order 'Rhodobacterales'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1129-1136.

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Record number: 778926