Name: Oceanicola pacificus Yuan et al. 2009

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: pa.ci’fi.cus. L. masc. adj. pacificus, peaceful, pertaining to the Pacific Ocean

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CCTCC AB 208224; DSM 29620; LMG 24619; MCCC 1A01034; W11-2B

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: DQ659449 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Yuan J, Lai Q, Wang B, Sun F, Liu X, Du Y, Li G, Gu L, Zheng T, Shao Z. Oceanicola pacificus sp. nov., isolated from a deep-sea pyrene-degrading consortium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1158-1161.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1853-1855.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Lutimaribacter pacificus (Yuan et al. 2009) Iwaki et al. 2013

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Lutimaribacter pacificus (Yuan et al. 2009) Iwaki et al. 2013	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ❗ Oceanicola pacificus 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 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Oceanicola Cho and Giovannoni 2004

Assigned by: Yuan J, Lai Q, Wang B, Sun F, Liu X, Du Y, Li G, Gu L, Zheng T, Shao Z. Oceanicola pacificus sp. nov., isolated from a deep-sea pyrene-degrading consortium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1158-1161.

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