Name: Polaribacter dokdonensis Yoon et al. 2006

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: dok.do.nen’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. dokdonensis, pertaining to Dokdo, an island of Korea, from where the type strain was isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 17204; DSW-5; KCTC 12392

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: DQ004686 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Yoon JH, Kang SJ, Oh TK. Polaribacter dokdonensis sp. nov., isolated from seawater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1251-1255.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 56, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:2029-2030.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Fukui et al. 2013 Fukui Y, Abe M, Kobayashi M, Saito H, Oikawa H, Yano Y, Satomi M. Polaribacter porphyrae sp. nov., isolated from the red alga Porphyra yezoensis, and emended descriptions of the genus Polaribacter and two Polaribacter species. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1665-1672. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2755-2756.

• Notes:
  • The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.05529 (N = 79).
  • The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project. 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 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: Polaribacter Gosink et al. 1998

Assigned by: Yoon JH, Kang SJ, Oh TK. Polaribacter dokdonensis sp. nov., isolated from seawater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1251-1255.

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