Name: Thalassomonas loyana Thompson et al. 2006

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: lo.ya’na. N.L. fem. adj. loyana, pertaining to Loya, named in honour of the Israeli biologist Y. Loya

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CBMAI 722; LMG 22536

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AY643537 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Thompson FL, Barash Y, Sawabe T, Sharon G, Swings J, Rosenberg E. Thalassomonas loyana sp. nov., a causative agent of the white plague-like disease of corals on the Eilat coral reef. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:365-368.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 56, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:929-930.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Thalassotalea loyana (Thompson et al. 2006) Zhang et al. 2014

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Thalassotalea loyana (Thompson et al. 2006) Zhang et al. 2014	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 😢 The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. Contrasting the term "chemotaxonomic" with "phenotypic" is not recommended. Whether taxa can have "members" is debatable. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details. Publication: Göker M. What can genome analysis offer for bacteria? In: Bridge P, Smith D, Stackebrandt E (eds), Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi, CAB International, Wallingford, 2021, p. 255-281.
  • ❗ Thalassomonas loyana 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 Thalassomonas.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1". — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "n".
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 6 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Thalassomonas Macián et al. 2001

Assigned by: Thompson FL, Barash Y, Sawabe T, Sharon G, Swings J, Rosenberg E. Thalassomonas loyana sp. nov., a causative agent of the white plague-like disease of corals on the Eilat coral reef. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:365-368.

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