Name: Phaeodactylibacter xiamenensis Chen et al. 2014

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: xi.a.men.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. xiamenensis, of Xiamen, a city in Fujian, China, where the type strain was first isolated [probably better: xiamensis]

Gender: masculine

Type strain: KCTC 32575; KD52; MCCC 1F01213

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KF986715 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Chen Z, Lei X, Lai Q, Li Y, Zhang B, Zhang J, Zhang H, Yang L, Zheng W, Tian Y, et al. Phaeodactylibacter xiamenensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Saprospiraceae isolated from the marine alga Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3496-3502.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 64, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:5-6.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Phaeodactylibacter Chen et al. 2014. Publication: Chen Z, Lei X, Lai Q, Li Y, Zhang B, Zhang J, Zhang H, Yang L, Zheng W, Tian Y, et al. Phaeodactylibacter xiamenensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Saprospiraceae isolated from the marine alga Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3496-3502.
  • 😷 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 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by García-López et al. (2019). Publication: 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.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Hahnke et al. (2016). Publication: Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:2003.

Parent taxon: Phaeodactylibacter Chen et al. 2014

Assigned by: Chen Z, Lei X, Lai Q, Li Y, Zhang B, Zhang J, Zhang H, Yang L, Zheng W, Tian Y, et al. Phaeodactylibacter xiamenensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Saprospiraceae isolated from the marine alga Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3496-3502.

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