Name: Porphyrobacter mercurialis Coil et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: mer.cu.ri.a’lis. L. masc./fem. adj. mercurialis, temperamental in reference to difficulties in establishing consistent growth requirements during characterization

Gender: masculine

Type strain: Coronado; DSM 29971; LMG 28700

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KP122961 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Coil DA, Flanagan JC, Stump A, Alexiev A, Lang JM, Eisen JA. Porphyrobacter mercurialis sp. nov., isolated from a stadium seat and emended description of the genus Porphyrobacter. PeerJ 2015; 3:e1400.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 168. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1603-1606.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Croceibacterium mercuriale (Coil et al. 2016) Liu et al. 2019

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Croceibacterium mercuriale (Coil et al. 2016) Liu et al. 2019	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ❗ Porphyrobacter mercurialis 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.
  • 🧍 In the effective publication, the DSMZ-collection number is mistakenly cited as DSMZ 29971. The correct designation is DSM 29971. — Leibniz Institute DSMZ. Prokaryotic Nomenclature Up-to-date, 2018-12-11.

Parent taxon: Porphyrobacter Fuerst et al. 1993

Assigned by: Coil DA, Flanagan JC, Stump A, Alexiev A, Lang JM, Eisen JA. Porphyrobacter mercurialis sp. nov., isolated from a stadium seat and emended description of the genus Porphyrobacter. PeerJ 2015; 3:e1400.

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Record number: 793909