Name: Olleya marilimosa Mancuso Nichols et al. 2005

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: mar.i.lim.o’sa. L. gen. neut. n. maris, of the sea; L. adj. limosus -a -um, full of slime, slimy; N.L. fem. adj. marilimosa, of the sea and slimy

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ACAM 1065; CAM030; CIP 108537; DSM 25196

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EF660466 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Nichols CM, Bowman JP, Guezennec J. Olleya marilimosa gen. nov., sp. nov., an exopolysaccharide-producing marine bacterium from the family Flavobacteriaceae, isolated from the Southern Ocean. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1557-1561.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 55, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:2239-2241.

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.
    Notes:
    • 🧍 As of 2020-04-15 this emendation was not yet included in an IJSEM List of Changes in Taxonomic Opinion.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Olleya Mancuso Nichols et al. 2005. Publication: Nichols CM, Bowman JP, Guezennec J. Olleya marilimosa gen. nov., sp. nov., an exopolysaccharide-producing marine bacterium from the family Flavobacteriaceae, isolated from the Southern Ocean. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1557-1561.
  • 😢 The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. Contrasting the term "chemotaxonomic" with "phenotypic" is not recommended. Whether taxa can have "members" is debatable. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details. Publication: Göker M. What can genome analysis offer for bacteria? In: Bridge P, Smith D, Stackebrandt E (eds), Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi, CAB International, Wallingford, 2021, p. 255-281.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 5 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Olleya Mancuso Nichols et al. 2005

Assigned by: Nichols CM, Bowman JP, Guezennec J. Olleya marilimosa gen. nov., sp. nov., an exopolysaccharide-producing marine bacterium from the family Flavobacteriaceae, isolated from the Southern Ocean. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1557-1561.

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