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

• 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.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 4 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 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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