Name: Thalassobius litorarius Park et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: li.to.ra’ri.us. N.L. masc. adj. litorarius, of the coast, referring to an isolated environment, a tidal flat on the west coast at Incheon, the Republic of Korea

Gender: masculine

Type strain: JCM 30758; KCCM 43143; MME-075

See detailed strain information at

16S rRNA gene: KP410684 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Park I, Cha IT, Seo MJ. Thalassobius litorarius sp. nov., isolated from a tidal flat. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1666-1672.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2467-2468.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name

Taxonomic status: in need of a replacement

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Thalassovita litoraria (Park et al. 2016) Deshmukh and Oren 2023	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 According to Ludwig et al. (2021), this "species affiliates away from its type species and may be reclassified as a new genus". Publication: Ludwig W, Viver T, Westram R, Francisco Gago J, Bustos-Caparros E, Knittel K, Amann R, Rossello-Mora R. Release LTP_12_2020, featuring a new ARB alignment and improved 16S rRNA tree for prokaryotic type strains. Syst Appl Microbiol 2021; 44:126218.

Parent taxon: Thalassobius Arahal et al. 2005

Assigned by: Park I, Cha IT, Seo MJ. Thalassobius litorarius sp. nov., isolated from a tidal flat. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1666-1672.

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Record number: 794034