Name: Porticoccus litoralis Oh et al. 2010

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: li.to.ra’lis. L. masc./fem. adj. litoralis, of or belonging to the sea shore

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 25064; IMCC 2115; KCCM 42369; NBRC 102686

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EF468719 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Oh HM, Kim H, Kim KM, Min GS, Cho JC. Porticoccus litoralis gen. nov., sp. nov., a gammaproteobacterium isolated from the Yellow Sea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:727-732.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1480-1481.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Porticoccus Oh et al. 2010. Publication: Oh HM, Kim H, Kim KM, Min GS, Cho JC. Porticoccus litoralis gen. nov., sp. nov., a gammaproteobacterium isolated from the Yellow Sea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:727-732.
  • 😷 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 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Porticoccus Oh et al. 2010

Assigned by: Oh HM, Kim H, Kim KM, Min GS, Cho JC. Porticoccus litoralis gen. nov., sp. nov., a gammaproteobacterium isolated from the Yellow Sea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:727-732.

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