Name: Rheinheimera tilapiae Chen et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ti.la’pi.ae. N.L. fem. n. Tilapia, the scientific name of a genus of tilapiine cichlid fish; N.L. gen. fem. n. tilapiae, of tilapia, referring to the isolation of the type strain from a culture pond for Tilapia

Gender: feminine

Type strain: BCRC 80263; KCTC 23315; LMG 26339; Ruye-90

See detailed strain information at

16S rRNA gene: HQ111524 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Chen WM, Yang SH, Young CC, Sheu SY. Rheinheimera tilapiae sp. nov., isolated from a freshwater culture pond. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1457-1463.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2368-2370.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Pararheinheimera tilapiae" (Chen et al. 2013) Sisinthy et al. 2017	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. Whether taxa can have "members" is debatable. 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.

Parent taxon: Rheinheimera Brettar et al. 2002

Assigned by: Chen WM, Yang SH, Young CC, Sheu SY. Rheinheimera tilapiae sp. nov., isolated from a freshwater culture pond. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1457-1463.

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Record number: 790654