Name: Aequorivita viscosa Liu et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: vis.co’sa. L. fem. adj. viscosa, viscous, referring to its adherent colonies

Gender: feminine

Type strain: 8-1b; CGMCC 1.11023; DSM 26349; JCM 18497

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: HM485318 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Liu JJ, Zhang XQ, Pan J, Sun C, Zhang Y, Li CQ, Zhu XF, Wu M. Aequorivita viscosa sp. nov., isolated from an intertidal zone, and emended descriptions of Aequorivita antarctica and Aequorivita capsosiphonis. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3192-3196.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:4371-4373.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.05108 (N = 91).
  • 😷 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.
  • 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project. 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: Aequorivita Bowman and Nichols 2002

Assigned by: Liu JJ, Zhang XQ, Pan J, Sun C, Zhang Y, Li CQ, Zhu XF, Wu M. Aequorivita viscosa sp. nov., isolated from an intertidal zone, and emended descriptions of Aequorivita antarctica and Aequorivita capsosiphonis. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3192-3196.

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