Name: Croceicoccus pelagius Wu et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: pe.la’gi.us. L. masc. adj. pelagius, of the sea, marine

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CGMCC 1.15358; DSM 101479; Ery9

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KT383844 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Wu YH, Li GY, Jian SL, Cheng H, Huo YY, Wang CS, Shao ZZ, Xu XW. Croceicoccus pelagius sp. nov. and Croceicoccus mobilis sp. nov., isolated from marine environments. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4506-4511.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:179-182.

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.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 6 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Hördt et al. (2020). Publication: 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.

Parent taxon: Croceicoccus Xu et al. 2009

Assigned by: Wu YH, Li GY, Jian SL, Cheng H, Huo YY, Wang CS, Shao ZZ, Xu XW. Croceicoccus pelagius sp. nov. and Croceicoccus mobilis sp. nov., isolated from marine environments. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4506-4511.

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Record number: 794840