Name: Rhodopirellula lusitana Bondoso et al. 2014

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: lu.si.ta’na. N.L. fem. adj. lusitana, pertaining to Lusitania, the Roman province in western Iberia

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 25457; LMG 27777; UC 17

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EF589351 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Bondoso J, Albuquerque L, Lobo-da-Cunha A, da Costa MS, Harder J, Lage OM. Rhodopirellula lusitana sp. nov. and Rhodopirellula rubra sp. nov., isolated from the surface of macroalgae. Syst Appl Microbiol 2014; 37:157-164.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 159. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2927-2929.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Neorhodopirellula lusitana (Bondoso et al. 2014) Sreya et al. 2023	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Emendations:
  • García-López et al. 2019 Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083. 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 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 In the effective publication, the type strain is erroneously cited as DSM 25,457 and LMG 27,777. The correct collection numbers of the type strain are DSM 25457 and LMG 27777. — Leibniz Institute DSMZ. Prokaryotic Nomenclature Up-to-date, 2018-12-11.

Parent taxon: Rhodopirellula Schlesner et al. 2004

Assigned by: Bondoso J, Albuquerque L, Lobo-da-Cunha A, da Costa MS, Harder J, Lage OM. Rhodopirellula lusitana sp. nov. and Rhodopirellula rubra sp. nov., isolated from the surface of macroalgae. Syst Appl Microbiol 2014; 37:157-164.

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Record number: 792091