Acanthopleuribacter

J.P. Euzéby: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature - Genus Acanthopleuribacter

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Number of species cited in this file: 1
Number of subspecies cited in this file: 0

Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").

Acanthopleuribacter Fukunaga et al. 2008, gen. nov. (Type genus of the order ¤ Acanthopleuribacterales Fukunaga et al. 2008; type genus of the family ¤ Acanthopleuribacteraceae Fukunaga et al. 2008).
Type species: ¤ Acanthopleuribacter pedis Fukunaga et al. 2008.
Etymology: N.L. n. Acanthopleura, a zoological genus name of shellfish; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Acanthopleuribacter, a rod from Acanthopleura, referring to the isolation of the first strain from the chiton Acanthopleura japonica.
Reference: FUKUNAGA (Y.), KURAHASHI (M.), YANAGI (K.), YOKOTA (A.) and HARAYAMA (S.): Acanthopleuribacter pedis gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from a chiton, and description of Acanthopleuribacteraceae fam. nov., Acanthopleuribacterales ord. nov., Holophagaceae fam. nov., Holophagales ord. nov. and Holophagae classis nov. in the phylum 'Acidobacteria'. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2008, 58, 2597-2601.
Original article in IJSEM Online

Acanthopleuribacter pedis Fukunaga et al. 2008, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus).
Type strain (see also StrainInfo.net): strain FYK2218 = KCTC 12899 = NBRC 101209.
GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain: AB303221.
Etymology: L. gen. n. pedis, of the foot, referring to the isolation of the type strain from the foot of a chiton.
Reference: FUKUNAGA (Y.), KURAHASHI (M.), YANAGI (K.), YOKOTA (A.) and HARAYAMA (S.): Acanthopleuribacter pedis gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from a chiton, and description of Acanthopleuribacteraceae fam. nov., Acanthopleuribacterales ord. nov., Holophagaceae fam. nov., Holophagales ord. nov. and Holophagae classis nov. in the phylum 'Acidobacteria'. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2008, 58, 2597-2601.
Original article in IJSEM Online