Name: Robiginitomaculum antarcticum Lee et al. 2007

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ant.arc’ti.cum. L. neut. adj. antarcticum, of the Antarctic environment, from where the organism was isolated

Gender: neuter

Type strain: DSM 21748; IMCC 3195; KCCM 42687; NBRC 103098

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EF495229 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Lee K, Lee HK, Choi TH, Cho JC. Robiginitomaculum antarcticum gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Hyphomonadaceae, from Antarctic seawater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2595-2599.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:313-314.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Hördt et al. 2020 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. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.
    Notes:
    • 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Robiginitomaculum Lee et al. 2007. Publication: Lee K, Lee HK, Choi TH, Cho JC. Robiginitomaculum antarcticum gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Hyphomonadaceae, from Antarctic seawater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2595-2599.
  • 😢 The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. Contrasting the term "chemotaxonomic" with "phenotypic" is not recommended. Whether taxa can have "members" is debatable. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details. Publication: Göker M. What can genome analysis offer for bacteria? In: Bridge P, Smith D, Stackebrandt E (eds), Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi, CAB International, Wallingford, 2021, p. 255-281.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Robiginitomaculum Lee et al. 2007

Assigned by: Lee K, Lee HK, Choi TH, Cho JC. Robiginitomaculum antarcticum gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Hyphomonadaceae, from Antarctic seawater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2595-2599.

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