Name: Porphyrobacter donghaensis Yoon et al. 2004

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: dong.ha.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. donghaensis, of Donghae, the Korean name for the East Sea in Korea from which the strains were isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 16220; KCTC 12229; SW-132

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AY559428 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Yoon JH, Lee MH, Oh TK. Porphyrobacter donghaensis sp. nov., isolated from sea water of the East Sea in Korea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:2231-2235.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 54, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:551-554.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Erythrobacter donghaensis (Yoon et al. 2004) Xu et al. 2020

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Erythrobacter donghaensis (Yoon et al. 2004) Xu et al. 2020	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ❗ Porphyrobacter donghaensis 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: Yoon JH, Lee MH, Oh TK. Porphyrobacter donghaensis sp. nov., isolated from sea water of the East Sea in Korea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:2231-2235.

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