Name: Phaeobacter porticola Breider et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: por.ti’co.la. L. gen. masc. n. portus, harbor; L. masc./fem. n. suff. -cola, dweller; from L. masc./fem. n. incola, inhabitant; N.L. masc./fem. n. porticola, an inhabitant of a harbour

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 103148; LMG 29594; P97

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KX163077 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Breider S, Freese HM, Sproer C, Simon M, Overmann J, Brinkhoff T. Phaeobacter porticola sp. nov., an antibiotic-producing bacterium isolated from a sea harbour. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2153-2159.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:3689-3691.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Hördt et al. (2020). Publication: Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468.

Parent taxon: Phaeobacter Martens et al. 2006

Assigned by: Breider S, Freese HM, Sproer C, Simon M, Overmann J, Brinkhoff T. Phaeobacter porticola sp. nov., an antibiotic-producing bacterium isolated from a sea harbour. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2153-2159.

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Record number: 795507