Name: Stakelama pacifica Chen et al. 2010

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: pa.ci’fi.ca. L. fem. adj. pacifica, peaceful, referring to the Pacific Ocean, the origin of the type strain

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CGMCC 1.7294; DSM 25059; JLT832; LMG 24686

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EU581829 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Chen C, Zheng Q, Wang YN, Yan XJ, Hao LK, Du X, Jiao N. Stakelama pacifica gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Sphingomonadaceae isolated from the Pacific Ocean. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2857-2861.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:477-478.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Hördt et al. 2020 Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468. 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:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Stakelama Chen et al. 2010. Publication: Chen C, Zheng Q, Wang YN, Yan XJ, Hao LK, Du X, Jiao N. Stakelama pacifica gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Sphingomonadaceae isolated from the Pacific Ocean. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2857-2861.
  • 😷 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.

Parent taxon: Stakelama Chen et al. 2010

Assigned by: Chen C, Zheng Q, Wang YN, Yan XJ, Hao LK, Du X, Jiao N. Stakelama pacifica gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Sphingomonadaceae isolated from the Pacific Ocean. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2857-2861.

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