Name: Wenxinia saemankumensis Park et al. 2014

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: sae.man.kum.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. saemankumensis, from Saemankum, the location on the Yellow Sea in Korea where the type strain was isolated

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CECT 8456; DSM 100565; KCTC 32548; S-22

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KF748921 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Park S, Jung YT, Yoon JH. Wenxinia saemankumensis sp. nov., isolated from a tidal flat sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:1958-1963.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 64, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2930-2931.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Hördt et al. 2020 Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Wenxinia Ying et al. 2007

Assigned by: Park S, Jung YT, Yoon JH. Wenxinia saemankumensis sp. nov., isolated from a tidal flat sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:1958-1963.

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Record number: 791886