Name: Pseudorhodobacter antarcticus Chen et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ant.arc’ti.cus. L. masc. adj. antarcticus, southern, belonging to Antarctica

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CGMCC 1.10836; KCTC 23700; ZS3-33

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: FJ196030 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Chen CX, Zhang XY, Liu C, Yu Y, Liu A, Li GW, Li H, Chen XL, Chen B, Zhou BC, et al. Pseudorhodobacter antarcticus sp. nov., isolated from Antarctic intertidal sandy sediment, and emended description of the genus Pseudorhodobacter Uchino et al. 2002 emend. Jung et al. 2012. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:849-854.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1939-1941.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Hördt et al. 2020 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. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 4 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Pseudorhodobacter Uchino et al. 2003

Assigned by: Chen CX, Zhang XY, Liu C, Yu Y, Liu A, Li GW, Li H, Chen XL, Chen B, Zhou BC, et al. Pseudorhodobacter antarcticus sp. nov., isolated from Antarctic intertidal sandy sediment, and emended description of the genus Pseudorhodobacter Uchino et al. 2002 emend. Jung et al. 2012. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:849-854.

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