Name: Oceanihabitans sediminis Zhang et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: se.di’mi.nis. L. gen. neut. n. sediminis, of sediment

Type strain: DSM 28133; LMG 28074; S9-10

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KU517448 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Zhang DC, Liu YX, Huang HJ, Weber K, Margesin R. Oceanihabitans sediminis gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from the Yellow Sea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3400-3405.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4921-4923.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • García-López et al. 2019 Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083. 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 Oceanihabitans Zhang et al. 2016. Publication: Zhang DC, Liu YX, Huang HJ, Weber K, Margesin R. Oceanihabitans sediminis gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from the Yellow Sea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3400-3405.
  • 😷 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 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Oceanihabitans Zhang et al. 2016

Assigned by: Zhang DC, Liu YX, Huang HJ, Weber K, Margesin R. Oceanihabitans sediminis gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from the Yellow Sea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3400-3405.

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