Name: Pelagicoccus croceus Yoon et al. 2007

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: cro.ce’us. L. masc. adj. croceus, saffron-coloured, yellow, golden, referring to the pale-yellow colour of colonies

Gender: masculine

Type strain: KCTC 12903; MBIC 8283; N5FB36-5; NBRC 103625

See detailed strain information at

16S rRNA gene: AB297922 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Yoon J, Oku N, Matsuda S, Kasai H, Yokota A. Pelagicoccus croceus sp. nov., a novel marine member of the family Puniceicoccaceae within the phylum 'Verrucomicrobia' isolated from seagrass. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2874-2880.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:531-532.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😢 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. The term "phylogenetic definition" 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 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 In the paper by Yoon et al. 2007, the type strain MBIC08283 is erroneously cited as MBIC08282. Publication: . Erratum. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2010; 60:718.

Parent taxon: Pelagicoccus Yoon et al. 2007

Assigned by: Yoon J, Oku N, Matsuda S, Kasai H, Yokota A. Pelagicoccus croceus sp. nov., a novel marine member of the family Puniceicoccaceae within the phylum 'Verrucomicrobia' isolated from seagrass. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2874-2880.

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