Name: Vallitalea guaymasensis Lakhal et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: guay.mas.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. guaymasensis, of or belonging to Guaymas

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 24848; JCM 17997; Ra1766G1

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: HE805640 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Lakhal R, Pradel N, Postec A, Hamdi M, Ollivier B, Godfroy A, Fardeau ML. Vallitalea guaymasensis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from marine sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3019-3023.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3935-3936.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Abyssivirga alkaniphila Schouw et al. 2016	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Vallitalea Lakhal et al. 2013. Publication: Lakhal R, Pradel N, Postec A, Hamdi M, Ollivier B, Godfroy A, Fardeau ML. Vallitalea guaymasensis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from marine sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3019-3023.
  • ⏰ According to Schouw et al. (2018), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of Abyssivirga alkaniphila Schouw et al. 2016. Publication: Schouw A, Vulcano F, Roalkvam I, Hocking WP, Reeves E, Stokke R, Bodtker G, Steen IH. Genome Analysis of Vallitalea guaymasensis Strain L81 Isolated from a Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent System. Microorganisms 2018; 6:0.
  • 😷 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: Vallitalea Lakhal et al. 2013

Assigned by: Lakhal R, Pradel N, Postec A, Hamdi M, Ollivier B, Godfroy A, Fardeau ML. Vallitalea guaymasensis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from marine sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3019-3023.

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