Name: Oceanivirga salmonicida Eisenberg et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: sal.mo.ni.ci.da. L. masc. n. salmo, salmon; L. masc. n. suff. -cida, murderer, killer; from L. v. caedo, to cut or kill; N.L. masc. n. salmonicida, salmon-killer (nominative in apposition)

Gender: feminine

Type strain: AVG 2115; DSM 101867; NCIMB 703044

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: X83517 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Eisenberg T, Kampfer P, Ewers C, Semmler T, Glaeser SP, Collins E, Ruttledge M, Palmer R. Oceanivirga salmonicida gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the Leptotrichiaceae isolated from Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2429-2437.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3765-3767.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 2

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Oceanivirga Eisenberg et al. 2016. Publication: Eisenberg T, Kampfer P, Ewers C, Semmler T, Glaeser SP, Collins E, Ruttledge M, Palmer R. Oceanivirga salmonicida gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the Leptotrichiaceae isolated from Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2429-2437.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "t".
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 4 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Oceanivirga Eisenberg et al. 2016

Assigned by: Eisenberg T, Kampfer P, Ewers C, Semmler T, Glaeser SP, Collins E, Ruttledge M, Palmer R. Oceanivirga salmonicida gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the Leptotrichiaceae isolated from Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2429-2437.

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Record number: 794194