Name: Vitellibacter aquimaris Thevarajoo et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: a.qui.ma’ris. L. fem. n. aqua, water; L. neut. n. mare (gen. maris), the sea; N.L. gen. neut. n. aquimaris, of seawater

Gender: masculine

Type strain: D-24; DSM 101732; KCTC 42708

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KM569673 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Thevarajoo S, Selvaratnam C, Goh KM, Hong KW, Chan XY, Chan KG, Chong CS. Vitellibacter aquimaris sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from seawater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3662-3668.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4921-4923.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Aequorivita aquimaris (Thevarajoo et al. 2016) García-López et al. 2020

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Aequorivita aquimaris (Thevarajoo et al. 2016) Wang et al. 2020	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name
    Aequorivita aquimaris (Thevarajoo et al. 2016) Zhang et al. 2020	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name
    Aequorivita aquimaris (Thevarajoo et al. 2016) García-López et al. 2020	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ❗ Vitellibacter aquimaris 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 Vitellibacter.
  • 😷 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.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by García-López et al. (2019). Publication: Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083.

Parent taxon: Vitellibacter Nedashkovskaya et al. 2003

Assigned by: Thevarajoo S, Selvaratnam C, Goh KM, Hong KW, Chan XY, Chan KG, Chong CS. Vitellibacter aquimaris sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from seawater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3662-3668.

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