Name: Pseudoruegeria marinistellae Zhang et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ma.ri.ni.stel’lae. L. masc. adj. marinus, from the sea; L. fem. n. stella, star; N.L. gen. fem. n. marinistellae, of a sea star

Gender: feminine

Type strain: KCTC 42910; MCCC 1K01155; SF-16

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KT944035 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Zhang Y, Xu Y, Fang W, Wang X, Fang Z, Xiao Y. Pseudoruegeria marinistellae sp. nov., isolated from an unidentified starfish in Sanya, China. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2017; 110:187-194.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 175. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1095-1098.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Tropicimonas marinistellae (Zhang et al. 2017) Liang et al. 2022

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Tropicimonas marinistellae (Zhang et al. 2017) Liang et al. 2022	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ❗ Pseudoruegeria marinistellae 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 Pseudoruegeria.
  • 😷 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.
  • 🧍 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: Pseudoruegeria Yoon et al. 2007

Assigned by: Zhang Y, Xu Y, Fang W, Wang X, Fang Z, Xiao Y. Pseudoruegeria marinistellae sp. nov., isolated from an unidentified starfish in Sanya, China. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2017; 110:187-194.

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Record number: 795368