Name: Polaribacter gangjinensis Lee et al. 2011

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: gang.ji.nen’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. gangjinensis, referring to Gangjin, the name of the bay in Korea from which the type strain was isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: JCM 16152; K17-16; KCTC 22729

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: FJ425213 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Lee YS, Lee DH, Kahng HY, Sohn SH, Jung JS. Polaribacter gangjinensis sp. nov., isolated from seawater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:1425-1429.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 61, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:2027-2028.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• 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 0.10355 (N = 40).
  • 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.

Parent taxon: Polaribacter Gosink et al. 1998

Assigned by: Lee YS, Lee DH, Kahng HY, Sohn SH, Jung JS. Polaribacter gangjinensis sp. nov., isolated from seawater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:1425-1429.

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