Name: Vitellibacter vladivostokensis Nedashkovskaya et al. 2003

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: vla.di.vos.to.ken’sis. N.L. masc. adj. vladivostokensis, pertaining to Vladivostok, a city in Asian Russia, where the organism was first isolated

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … wla-di-wos-to-KEN-sis, masculine

Type strain: IFO 16718; JCM 11732; KMM 3516; NBRC 16718

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB681115 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Nedashkovskaya OI, Suzuki M, Vysotskii MV, Mikhailov VV. Vitellibacter vladivostokensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the phylum Cytophaga-Flavobacterium-Bacteroides. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1281-1286. 🇯🇵

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 53, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:3-6.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Aequorivita vladivostokensis (Nedashkovskaya et al. 2003) Hahnke et al. 2017

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Aequorivita vladivostokensis (Nedashkovskaya et al. 2003) Hahnke et al. 2017	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Vitellibacter Nedashkovskaya et al. 2003. Publication: Nedashkovskaya OI, Suzuki M, Vysotskii MV, Mikhailov VV. Vitellibacter vladivostokensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the phylum Cytophaga-Flavobacterium-Bacteroides. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1281-1286. 🇯🇵
  • 😢 The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. Contrasting the term "chemotaxonomic" with "phenotypic" is not recommended. Using the term "phylogenetic data" (or equivalent) for sequence data is not advocated. Whether taxa can have "members" is debatable. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details. Publication: Göker M. What can genome analysis offer for bacteria? In: Bridge P, Smith D, Stackebrandt E (eds), Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi, CAB International, Wallingford, 2021, p. 255-281. 🇬🇧
  • ❗ Vitellibacter vladivostokensis 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 6 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Hahnke et al. (2016). Publication: Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:2003. 🇩🇪

Parent taxon: Vitellibacter Nedashkovskaya et al. 2003

Assigned by: Nedashkovskaya OI, Suzuki M, Vysotskii MV, Mikhailov VV. Vitellibacter vladivostokensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the phylum Cytophaga-Flavobacterium-Bacteroides. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1281-1286. 🇯🇵

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