Name: Roseivirga seohaensis (Yoon et al. 2005) Lau et al. 2006

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Marinicola seohaensis Yoon et al. 2005

Etymology: seo.ha.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. seohaensis, referring to Seohae

Gender: feminine

Type strain: JCM 12600; KCTC 12312; SW-152

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AY739663 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Lau SC, Tsoi MM, Li X, Plakhotnikova I, Dobretsov S, Wu M, Wong PK, Pawlik JR, Qian PY. Description of Fabibacter halotolerans gen. nov., sp. nov. and Roseivirga spongicola sp. nov., and reclassification of [Marinicola] seohaensis as Roseivirga seohaensis comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1059-1065.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 56, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1719-1720.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Roseivirga ehrenbergii Nedashkovskaya et al. 2005

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Roseivirga seohaensis (Yoon et al. 2005) Selvaratnam et al. 2016	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name
    Roseivirga ehrenbergii Nedashkovskaya et al. 2005	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Marinicola seohaensis Yoon et al. 2005	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:
  • ⏲ According to Nedashkovskaya et al. (2008), this species is a later heterotypic synonym of Roseivirga ehrenbergii Nedashkovskaya et al. 2005. Publication: Nedashkovskaya OI, Kim SB, Lysenko AM, Kalinovskaya NI, Mikhailov VV. Reclassification of Roseivirga seohaensis (Yoon et al. 2005) Lau et al. 2006 as a later synonym of Roseivirga ehrenbergii Nedashkovskaya et al. 2005 and emendation of the species description. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1194-1197.
  • ❗ Roseivirga seohaensis 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 Roseivirga.
  • 😷 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.

Parent taxon: Roseivirga Nedashkovskaya et al. 2005

Assigned by: Lau SC, Tsoi MM, Li X, Plakhotnikova I, Dobretsov S, Wu M, Wong PK, Pawlik JR, Qian PY. Description of Fabibacter halotolerans gen. nov., sp. nov. and Roseivirga spongicola sp. nov., and reclassification of [Marinicola] seohaensis as Roseivirga seohaensis comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1059-1065.

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