Name: Gelidibacter mesophilus Macián et al. 2002

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: me.so.phi’lus. Gr. masc. adj. mesos, middle; N.L. masc. adj. suff. -philus, loving; N.L. masc. adj. mesophilus, middle (temperature)-loving, mesophilic

Gender: masculine

Type strain: 2SM29; CECT 5103; DSM 14094; DSM 14095

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AJ344133 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Macian MC, Pujalte MJ, Marquez MC, Ludwig W, Ventosa A, Garay E, Schleifer KH. Gelidibacter mesophilus sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium in the family Flavobacteriaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1325-1329.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 52, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1439-1440.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Hahnke et al. 2016 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. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 26. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2081-2086.
    Notes:
    • 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project.

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.03254 (N = 108).
  • 😷 The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Gelidibacter Bowman et al. 1997

Assigned by: Macian MC, Pujalte MJ, Marquez MC, Ludwig W, Ventosa A, Garay E, Schleifer KH. Gelidibacter mesophilus sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium in the family Flavobacteriaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1325-1329.

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