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. part. adj. agarivorans, agar-digesting

Gender: masculine

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

See detailed strain information at

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.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

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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