Name: Pseudooceanicola lipolyticus Huang et al. 2018

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: li.po.ly’ti.cus. Gr. neut. n. lipos, animal fat; N.L. adj. lyticus -a -um, able to loosen, able to dissolve; from Gr. adj. lytikos -ê -on, able to loosen, able to dissolve; N.L. masc. adj. lipolyticus, fat-dissolving

Gender: masculine

Type strain: 157; KCTC 52654; MCCC 1K03317

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KY273603 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Huang MM, Guo LL, Wu YH, Lai QL, Shao ZZ, Wang CS, Wu M, Xu XW. Pseudooceanicola lipolyticus sp. nov., a marine alphaproteobacterium, reclassification of Oceanicola flagellatus as Pseudooceanicola flagellatus comb. nov. and emended description of the genus Pseudooceanicola. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:409-415.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 68, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:979-981.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Aliioceanicola lipolyticus" (Huang et al. 2018) Liang et al. 2021	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 😢 The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. Contrasting the term "chemotaxonomic" with "phenotypic" is not recommended. The usage of the term "coherent taxon" (or equivalent) is cautioned against. Using the term "phylogenetic data" (or equivalent) for sequence data is not advocated. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details. Publication: Göker M. What can genome analysis offer for bacteria? In: Bridge P, Smith D, Stackebrandt E (eds), Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi, CAB International, Wallingford, 2021, p. 255-281.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 According to Ludwig et al. (2021), this "species affiliates away from its type species and may be reclassified as a new genus". Publication: Ludwig W, Viver T, Westram R, Francisco Gago J, Bustos-Caparros E, Knittel K, Amann R, Rossello-Mora R. Release LTP_12_2020, featuring a new ARB alignment and improved 16S rRNA tree for prokaryotic type strains. Syst Appl Microbiol 2021; 44:126218.
  • 🧍 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: Pseudooceanicola Lai et al. 2015

Assigned by: Huang MM, Guo LL, Wu YH, Lai QL, Shao ZZ, Wang CS, Wu M, Xu XW. Pseudooceanicola lipolyticus sp. nov., a marine alphaproteobacterium, reclassification of Oceanicola flagellatus as Pseudooceanicola flagellatus comb. nov. and emended description of the genus Pseudooceanicola. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:409-415.

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