Name: Pelagerythrobacter marensis (Seo and Lee 2010) Xu et al. 2020

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Altererythrobacter marensis Seo and Lee 2010

Etymology: ma.ren’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. marensis, of Mara Island, Jeju, Republic of Korea, where the type strain was isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 21428; KCTC 22370; MSW-14

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: FM177586 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Xu L, Sun C, Fang C, Oren A, Xu XW. Genomic-based taxonomic classification of the family Erythrobacteraceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4470-4495.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 70, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5602-5608.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Altererythrobacter marensis Seo and Lee 2010	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.12217 (N = 16).
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Pelagerythrobacter Xu et al. 2020

Assigned by: Xu L, Sun C, Fang C, Oren A, Xu XW. Genomic-based taxonomic classification of the family Erythrobacteraceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4470-4495.

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Record number: 13012