Name: Sphingomicrobium astaxanthinifaciens Shahina et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: as.ta.xan.thi.ni.fa’ci.ens. N.L. neut. n. astaxanthinum, astaxanthin; L. pres. part. faciens, making/producing; N.L. part. adj. astaxanthinifaciens, astaxanthin-producing

Gender: neuter

Type strain: BCRC 80465; CC-AMO-30B; JCM 18551

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: JX235675 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Shahina M, Hameed A, Lin SY, Hsu YH, Liu YC, Cheng IC, Lee MR, Lai WA, Lee RJ, Young CC. Sphingomicrobium astaxanthinifaciens sp. nov., an astaxanthin-producing glycolipid-rich bacterium isolated from surface seawater and emended description of the genus Sphingomicrobium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3415-3422.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:4371-4373.

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 6 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 In the species description (protologue), only one collection number of the type strain is cited (JCM 18551); the second one (BCRC 80465) is not listed. — Leibniz Institute DSMZ. Prokaryotic Nomenclature Up-to-date, 2018-12-11.

Parent taxon: Sphingomicrobium Kämpfer et al. 2012

Assigned by: Shahina M, Hameed A, Lin SY, Hsu YH, Liu YC, Cheng IC, Lee MR, Lai WA, Lee RJ, Young CC. Sphingomicrobium astaxanthinifaciens sp. nov., an astaxanthin-producing glycolipid-rich bacterium isolated from surface seawater and emended description of the genus Sphingomicrobium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3415-3422.

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Record number: 791099