diff --git a/include/seqan3/alphabet/nucleotide/sam_dna16.hpp b/include/seqan3/alphabet/nucleotide/sam_dna16.hpp
index 71a062864b..2e0aea9d89 100644
--- a/include/seqan3/alphabet/nucleotide/sam_dna16.hpp
+++ b/include/seqan3/alphabet/nucleotide/sam_dna16.hpp
@@ -8,12 +8,18 @@
 /*!\file
  * \brief [DEPRECATED] Provides seqan3::dna16sam.
  * \author Svenja Mehringer <svenja.mehringer AT fu-berlin.de>
- * \deprecated This header will be removed in 3.1. Please use seqan3/alphabet/nucleotide/dna16sam.hpp instead.
+ * \deprecated This header will be removed in 3.1.0; Please \#include seqan3/alphabet/nucleotide/dna16sam.hpp instead.
  */
 
 #pragma once
 
 #include <seqan3/alphabet/nucleotide/dna16sam.hpp>
 
+namespace seqan3
+{
+//!\deprecated Please use seqan3::dna16sam instead.
+using sam_dna16 SEQAN3_DEPRECATED_310 = seqan3::dna16sam;
+} // namespace seqan3
+
 SEQAN3_DEPRECATED_HEADER(
    "This header is deprecated and will be removed in SeqAn-3.1.0; Please #include <seqan3/alphabet/nucleotide/dna16sam.hpp> instead.")