Name: Salegentibacter agarivorans Nedashkovskaya et al. 2006

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: a.ga.ri’vo.rans. N.L. neut. n. agarum, agar, algal polysaccharide; L. inf. v. vorare, to devour, to digest; N.L. masc. part. adj. agarivorans, agar-digesting

Pronunciation, gender: a-ga-RI-wo-rans, masculine

Type strain: DSM 23515; KCTC 12560; KMM 7019; LMG 23205

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: DQ191176 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Nedashkovskaya OI, Kim SB, Vancanneyt M, Shin DS, Lysenko AM, Shevchenko LS, Krasokhin VB, Mikhailov VV, Swings J, Bae KS. Salegentibacter agarivorans sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from the sponge Artemisina sp. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:883-887. 🇷🇺

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 56, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1461-1462.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• 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. — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2025-06-04.

Parent taxon: Salegentibacter McCammon and Bowman 2000

Assigned by: Nedashkovskaya OI, Kim SB, Vancanneyt M, Shin DS, Lysenko AM, Shevchenko LS, Krasokhin VB, Mikhailov VV, Swings J, Bae KS. Salegentibacter agarivorans sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from the sponge Artemisina sp. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:883-887. 🇷🇺

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Record number: 784846