Name: Roseivirga seohaensis subsp. aquiponti Selvaratnam et al. 2016

Category: Subspecies

Proposed as: subsp. nov.

Etymology: a.qui.pon’ti. L. fem. n. aqua, water; L. masc. n. pontus, the sea; N.L. gen. masc. n. aquiponti, of seawater

Gender: feminine

Type strain: D-25; DSM 101709; KCTC 42709

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KM587636 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Selvaratnam C, Thevarajoo S, Goh KM, Chan KG, Chong CS. Proposal to reclassify Roseivirga ehrenbergii (Nedashkovskaya et al., 2008) as Roseivirga seohaensis comb. nov., description of Roseivirga seohaensis subsp. aquiponti subsp. nov. and emendation of the genus Roseivirga. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:5537-5543.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:525-528.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this subspecies 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: Roseivirga seohaensis (Yoon et al. 2005) Selvaratnam et al. 2016

Assigned by: Selvaratnam C, Thevarajoo S, Goh KM, Chan KG, Chong CS. Proposal to reclassify Roseivirga ehrenbergii (Nedashkovskaya et al., 2008) as Roseivirga seohaensis comb. nov., description of Roseivirga seohaensis subsp. aquiponti subsp. nov. and emendation of the genus Roseivirga. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:5537-5543.

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Record number: 794907