Name: Porphyrobacter colymbi Furuhata et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: co’lym.bi. L. gen. masc. n. colymbi, of a swimming pool, thus indicating the site of isolation of the type strain

Gender: masculine

Type strain: JCM 18338; KCTC 32078; TPW-24

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB702992 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Furuhata K, Edagawa A, Miyamoto H, Kawakami Y, Fukuyama M. Porphyrobacter colymbi sp. nov. isolated from swimming pool water in Tokyo, Japan. J Gen Appl Microbiol 2013; 59:245-250.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 154. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3931-3934.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Erythrobacter colymbi (Furuhata et al. 2013) Xu et al. 2020

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Erythrobacter colymbi (Furuhata et al. 2013) Xu et al. 2020	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ❗ Porphyrobacter colymbi is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Porphyrobacter.
  • 😷 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 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 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: Porphyrobacter Fuerst et al. 1993

Assigned by: Furuhata K, Edagawa A, Miyamoto H, Kawakami Y, Fukuyama M. Porphyrobacter colymbi sp. nov. isolated from swimming pool water in Tokyo, Japan. J Gen Appl Microbiol 2013; 59:245-250.

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