Name: Oceanicola nitratireducens Zheng et al. 2010

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ni.tra.ti.re.du’cens. N.L. masc. n. nitras (gen. nitratis), nitrate; L. pres. part. reducens, leading back, bringing back and in chemistry converting to a different oxidation state; N.L. part. adj. nitratireducens, reducing nitrate

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CGMCC 1.7292; DSM 29619; JLT1210; LMG 24663

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EU581832 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Zheng Q, Chen C, Wang YN, Jiao N. Oceanicola nitratireducens sp. nov., a marine alphaproteobacterium isolated from the South China Sea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1655-1659.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2261-2262.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Pseudooceanicola nitratireducens (Zheng et al. 2010) Lai et al. 2015

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Pseudooceanicola nitratireducens (Zheng et al. 2010) Lai et al. 2015	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ❗ Oceanicola nitratireducens 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 4 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Oceanicola Cho and Giovannoni 2004

Assigned by: Zheng Q, Chen C, Wang YN, Jiao N. Oceanicola nitratireducens sp. nov., a marine alphaproteobacterium isolated from the South China Sea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1655-1659.

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