Name: Tessaracoccus flavescens Lee and Lee 2008

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: fla.ves’cens. L. v. flavesco, to become yellow; L. masc. part. adj. flavescens, becoming yellow

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … fla-WES-kens, masculine

Type strain: DSM 18582; JCM 16025; KCTC 19196; SST-39

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AM393882 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Lee DW, Lee SD. Tessaracoccus flavescens sp. nov., isolated from marine sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:785-789. 🇰🇷

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 58, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1513-1514.

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. — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 12 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Nouioui et al. (2018). Publication: Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007. 🇩🇪

Parent taxon: Tessaracoccus Maszenan et al. 1999

Assigned by: Lee DW, Lee SD. Tessaracoccus flavescens sp. nov., isolated from marine sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:785-789. 🇰🇷

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Record number: 787275