Name: Salegentibacter holothuriorum Nedashkovskaya et al. 2004

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ho.lo.thu.ri.o’rum. N.L. gen. fem. pl. n. holothuriorum, of holothurians, sea cucumbers [probably better: holothuriarum]; N.L. neut. n. bacterium, isolated from holothurians

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 23405; KMM 3524; LMG 21968; NBRC 100249

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB681148 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Nedashkovskaya OI, Suzuki M, Vancanneyt M, Cleenwerck I, Zhukova NV, Vysotskii MV, Mikhailov VV, Swings J. Salegentibacter holothuriorum sp. nov., isolated from the edible holothurian Apostichopus japonicus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1107-1110.

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

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 4 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project. 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: Salegentibacter McCammon and Bowman 2000

Assigned by: Nedashkovskaya OI, Suzuki M, Vancanneyt M, Cleenwerck I, Zhukova NV, Vysotskii MV, Mikhailov VV, Swings J. Salegentibacter holothuriorum sp. nov., isolated from the edible holothurian Apostichopus japonicus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1107-1110.

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