Name: Pseudovibrio hongkongensis Xu et al. 2015

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: hong.kong.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. hongkongensis, pertaining to Hong Kong, S. A. R., P. R. China

Gender: masculine

Type strain: KCTC 42383; MCCC 1K00451; UST20140214-015B

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KP207599 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Xu Y, Li Q, Tian R, Lai Q, Zhang Y. Pseudovibrio hongkongensis sp. nov., isolated from a marine flatworm. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2015; 108:127-132.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 165. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:2777-2783.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Polycladidibacter hongkongensis" (Xu et al. 2015) Hinger et al. 2020	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.04876 (N = 2).
  • 😷 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.
  • 🧍 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: Pseudovibrio Shieh et al. 2004

Assigned by: Xu Y, Li Q, Tian R, Lai Q, Zhang Y. Pseudovibrio hongkongensis sp. nov., isolated from a marine flatworm. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2015; 108:127-132.

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