Name: Silicibacter pomeroyi González et al. 2003

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: po.me.roy’i. N.L. gen. masc. n. pomeroyi, of Lawrence R. Pomeroy, marine microbial ecologist who first elucidated the role of bacteria in the marine food web

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 700808; DSM 15171; DSS-3

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AF098491 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Gonzalez JM, Covert JS, Whitman WB, Henriksen JR, Mayer F, Scharf B, Schmitt R, Buchan A, Fuhrman JA, Kiene RP, et al. Silicibacter pomeroyi sp. nov. and Roseovarius nubinhibens sp. nov., dimethylsulfoniopropionate-demethylating bacteria from marine environments. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1261-1269.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 53, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:3-6.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Ruegeria pomeroyi (González et al. 2003) Yi et al. 2007

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Ruegeria pomeroyi (González et al. 2003) Yi et al. 2007	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ❗ Silicibacter pomeroyi is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Silicibacter.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 40 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 According to Muramatsu et al. 2007, 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis suggests that the genera Ruegeria and Silicibacter are closely related and should be integrated into one genus (i.e. Ruegeria Uchino et al. 1999 which has priority over Silicibacter Petursdottir and Kristjansson 1999). However, their differential phenotypic properties do not support this unification. Consequently the authors retain the two species of Silicibacter in their paper. Publication: Muramatsu Y, Uchino Y, Kasai H, Suzuki K, Nakagawa Y. Ruegeria mobilis sp. nov., a member of the Alphaproteobacteria isolated in Japan and Palau. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1304-1309.

Parent taxon: Silicibacter Petursdottir and Kristjansson 1999

Assigned by: Gonzalez JM, Covert JS, Whitman WB, Henriksen JR, Mayer F, Scharf B, Schmitt R, Buchan A, Fuhrman JA, Kiene RP, et al. Silicibacter pomeroyi sp. nov. and Roseovarius nubinhibens sp. nov., dimethylsulfoniopropionate-demethylating bacteria from marine environments. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1261-1269.

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