Name: Robiginitalea biformata Cho and Giovannoni 2004

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: bi.for.ma’ta. L. fem. adj. biformata, double-formed, two-shaped, pertaining to the different cell morphology in different growth phases

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-864; DSM 15991; HTCC 2501; KCTC 12146

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AY424899 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Cho JC, Giovannoni SJ. Robiginitalea biformata gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium in the family Flavobacteriaceae with a higher G+C content. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1101-1106.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 54, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1911-1913.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Hahnke et al. 2016 Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:2003. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 26. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2081-2086.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Robiginitalea Cho and Giovannoni 2004. Publication: Cho JC, Giovannoni SJ. Robiginitalea biformata gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium in the family Flavobacteriaceae with a higher G+C content. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1101-1106.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 7 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by García-López et al. (2019). Publication: 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.

Parent taxon: Robiginitalea Cho and Giovannoni 2004

Assigned by: Cho JC, Giovannoni SJ. Robiginitalea biformata gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium in the family Flavobacteriaceae with a higher G+C content. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1101-1106.

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