Name: Ruegeria lacuscaerulensis (Petursdottir and Kristjansson 1999) Yi et al. 2007

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Silicibacter lacuscaerulensis Petursdottir and Kristjansson 1999

Etymology: L. gen. masc. n. lacus, lake; L. masc. adj. caeruleus, blue; N.L. masc./fem. adj. lacuscaerulensis, pertaining to the blue lake

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 11314; ITI-1157; KCTC 2953

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: U77644 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Yi H, Lim YW, Chun J. Taxonomic evaluation of the genera Ruegeria and Silicibacter: a proposal to transfer the genus Silicibacter Petursdottir and Kristjansson 1999 to the genus Ruegeria Uchino et al. 1999. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:815-819.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1374-1375.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Silicibacter lacuscaerulensis Petursdottir and Kristjansson 1999	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Emendations:
  • Vandecandelaere et al. 2008 Vandecandelaere I, Nercessian O, Segaert E, Achouak W, Faimali M, Vandamme P. Ruegeria scottomollicae sp. nov., isolated from a marine electroactive biofilm. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:2726-2733. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 58, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:452-453.
    Notes:
    • In the paper by Vandecandelaere et al. 2008, Ruegeria lacuscaerulensis is erroneously cited as Ruegeria lacuscaerulensis (Petursdottir and Kristjansson 1997) Yi et al. 2007.
  • Hördt et al. 2020 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. 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 phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.05752 (N = 128).

Parent taxon: Ruegeria Uchino et al. 1999

Assigned by: Yi H, Lim YW, Chun J. Taxonomic evaluation of the genera Ruegeria and Silicibacter: a proposal to transfer the genus Silicibacter Petursdottir and Kristjansson 1999 to the genus Ruegeria Uchino et al. 1999. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:815-819.

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