Name: Siansivirga zeaxanthinifaciens Hameed et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ze.a.xan.thi.ni.fa’ci.ens. N.L. neut. n. zeaxanthinum, zeaxanthin; L. pres. part. faciens, making/producing; N.L. part. adj. zeaxanthinifaciens, zeaxanthin-producing

Gender: feminine

Type strain: BCRC 80315; CC-SAMT-1; JCM 17682

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: HM179539 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Hameed A, Shahina M, Lin SY, Sridhar KR, Young LS, Lee MR, Chen WM, Chou JH, Young CC. Siansivirga zeaxanthinifaciens gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel zeaxanthin-producing member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from coastal seawater of Taiwan. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2012; 333:37-45.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 149. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1-5.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Siansivirga Hameed et al. 2013. Publication: Hameed A, Shahina M, Lin SY, Sridhar KR, Young LS, Lee MR, Chen WM, Chou JH, Young CC. Siansivirga zeaxanthinifaciens gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel zeaxanthin-producing member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from coastal seawater of Taiwan. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2012; 333:37-45.
  • 😷 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 phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by García-López et al. (2019). 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.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Hahnke et al. (2016). Publication: Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:2003.

Parent taxon: Siansivirga Hameed et al. 2013

Assigned by: Hameed A, Shahina M, Lin SY, Sridhar KR, Young LS, Lee MR, Chen WM, Chou JH, Young CC. Siansivirga zeaxanthinifaciens gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel zeaxanthin-producing member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from coastal seawater of Taiwan. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2012; 333:37-45.

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