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Species Vibrio tritonius

Name: Vibrio tritonius Sawabe et al. 2015

Category, proposed as: species, sp. nov.

Etymology: tri.to’ni.us. N.L. masc. adj. tritonius, named after Triton, a sea-god, son of Neptune and the nymph Salacia, referring to the habitat of the bacteria

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: WI-bri-o tri-TO-ni-us, masculine

Type strain: AM2; JCM 16456; LMG 25401

16S rRNA gene: GU951698 Analysetree FASTA download

Effective publication: Sawabe T, Ogura Y, Matsumura Y, Feng G, Amin AR, Mino S, Nakagawa S, Sawabe T, Kumar R, Fukui Y, et al. Updating the Vibrio clades defined by multilocus sequence phylogeny: proposal of eight new clades, and the description of Vibrio tritonius sp. nov. Front Microbiol 2013; 4:414. 🇯🇵

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 163. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1105-1111.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

Risk group: 1

  • Notes:
    • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2026-08-13. 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 8 times in PubMed until 2026-06-11.
    • 🙆 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded risk group of the genus.
    • 🧍 In the effective publication, the collection number of the type strain was erroneously given as JCM 16459 instead of JCM 16456. — Leibniz Institute DSMZ. Prokaryotic Nomenclature Up-to-date, 2018-12-11.

Parent taxon: Vibrio Pacini 1854 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Sawabe T, Ogura Y, Matsumura Y, Feng G, Amin AR, Mino S, Nakagawa S, Sawabe T, Kumar R, Fukui Y, et al. Updating the Vibrio clades defined by multilocus sequence phylogeny: proposal of eight new clades, and the description of Vibrio tritonius sp. nov. Front Microbiol 2013; 4:414. 🇯🇵

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Record number: 792776