Name: Portibacter lacus Yoon et al. 2014

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: la’cus. L. neut. n. lac, milk; L. gen. masc. n. lacus, lake

Gender: masculine

Type strain: KCTC 23747; NBRC 108769; YM 8-076

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB675658 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Yoon J, Matsuo Y, Kasai H, Yokota A. Portibacter lacus gen. nov., sp.nov., a new member of the family Saprospiraceae isolated from a saline lake. J Gen Appl Microbiol 2012; 58:191-197.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 160. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3603-3606.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Huang et al. 2022 Huang Z, Hong Q, Lai Q, Zhang Q. Portibacter marinus sp. nov., isolated from the sediment on the surface of plastics and proposal of a novel genus Neolewinella gen. nov. based on the genome-based phylogeny of the family Lewinellaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5561. Oren A, Göker M. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 72, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5762.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Portibacter Yoon et al. 2014. Publication: Yoon J, Matsuo Y, Kasai H, Yokota A. Portibacter lacus gen. nov., sp.nov., a new member of the family Saprospiraceae isolated from a saline lake. J Gen Appl Microbiol 2012; 58:191-197.
  • 😷 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.

Parent taxon: Portibacter Yoon et al. 2014

Assigned by: Yoon J, Matsuo Y, Kasai H, Yokota A. Portibacter lacus gen. nov., sp.nov., a new member of the family Saprospiraceae isolated from a saline lake. J Gen Appl Microbiol 2012; 58:191-197.

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