Name: Planktotalea arctica Baek et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: arc’ti.ca. L. fem. adj. arctica, of the Arctic, the environment from where the type strain was isolated

Gender: feminine

Type strain: IMCC 9565; KACC 18009; NBRC 110393

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KJ160495 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Baek K, Choi A, Lee YM, Lee HK, Cho JC. Planktotalea arctica sp. nov., isolated from Arctic seawater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:3501-3505.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:4881-4883.

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 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 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: Planktotalea Hahnke et al. 2012

Assigned by: Baek K, Choi A, Lee YM, Lee HK, Cho JC. Planktotalea arctica sp. nov., isolated from Arctic seawater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:3501-3505.

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