Name: Tunicatimonas pelagia Yoon et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: pe.la’gi.a. L. fem. adj. pelagia, of the sea

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … pe-LA-gi-a, feminine

Type strain: KCTC 23473; N5DB8-4; NBRC 107804

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB602437 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Yoon J, Oku N, Park S, Katsuta A, Kasai H. Tunicatimonas pelagia gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel representative of the family Flammeovirgaceae isolated from a sea anemone by the differential growth screening method. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2012; 101:133-140. 🇰🇷

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 166. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:3763-3767.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Tunicatimonas Yoon et al. 2016. Publication: Yoon J, Oku N, Park S, Katsuta A, Kasai H. Tunicatimonas pelagia gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel representative of the family Flammeovirgaceae isolated from a sea anemone by the differential growth screening method. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2012; 101:133-140. 🇰🇷
  • 😷 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 4 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
  • 🧍 In the Validation List 166 of the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (2015), 65, 3763–3767, the name Tunicatimonas pelagia Yoon et al. 2015 is listed but not the new genus Tunicatimonas Yoon et al. 2015. Strict. Publication: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 166. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:3763-3767.
  • 🧍 The name was validly published in 2016 in a Corrigendum to Validation List 166 (A. Oren and G.M. Garrity, IJSEM 66:4916). Publication: Oren A, Garrity GM. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published: Validation List no. 166. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4916. 🇮🇱

Parent taxon: Tunicatimonas Yoon et al. 2016

Assigned by: Yoon J, Oku N, Park S, Katsuta A, Kasai H. Tunicatimonas pelagia gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel representative of the family Flammeovirgaceae isolated from a sea anemone by the differential growth screening method. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2012; 101:133-140. 🇰🇷

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