Name: Phaeobacter leonis Gaboyer et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: le.o’nis. L. gen. masc. n. leonis, of a lion, named after sinus Leonis the Medieval Latin name of Gulf of Lions, in reference to the origin of the type strain

Gender: masculine

Type strain: 306; CIP 110369; DSM 25627; UBOCC 3187

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: HE661585 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Gaboyer F, Tindall BJ, Ciobanu MC, Duthoit F, Le Romancer M, Alain K. Phaeobacter leonis sp. nov., an alphaproteobacterium from Mediterranean Sea sediments. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3301-3306.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:4371-4373.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Pseudophaeobacter leonis (Gaboyer et al. 2013) Breider et al. 2014

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Pseudophaeobacter leonis (Gaboyer et al. 2013) Breider et al. 2014	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ❗ Phaeobacter leonis 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 Phaeobacter.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 4 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Phaeobacter Martens et al. 2006

Assigned by: Gaboyer F, Tindall BJ, Ciobanu MC, Duthoit F, Le Romancer M, Alain K. Phaeobacter leonis sp. nov., an alphaproteobacterium from Mediterranean Sea sediments. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3301-3306.

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Record number: 791108