Name: Planktotalea frisia Hahnke et al. 2012

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: fri’si.a. N.L. fem. adj. frisia, Frisian, pertaining to Frisia, a coastal region along the south-eastern corner of the North Sea, i.e. the German Bight, from where the organism was obtained

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 23709; LMG 25294; SH6-1

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: FJ882052 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Hahnke S, Tindall BJ, Schumann P, Sperling M, Brinkhoff T, Simon M. Planktotalea frisia gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the southern North Sea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1619-1624.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 62, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2313-2314.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Planktotalea Hahnke et al. 2012. Publication: Hahnke S, Tindall BJ, Schumann P, Sperling M, Brinkhoff T, Simon M. Planktotalea frisia gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the southern North Sea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1619-1624.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 8 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project. 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.
  • 🧍 The specific epithet frisia is a neo-Latin feminine adjective, not a Latin feminine adjective as cited in the paper by Hahnke et al. 2012. Publication: Euzeby JP. List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:590-592.

Parent taxon: Planktotalea Hahnke et al. 2012

Assigned by: Hahnke S, Tindall BJ, Schumann P, Sperling M, Brinkhoff T, Simon M. Planktotalea frisia gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the southern North Sea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1619-1624.

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