Aquimonas

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

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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").

Aquimonas Saha et al. 2005, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Aquimonas voraii Saha et al. 2005.
Etymology: L. n. aqua, water; L. fem. n. monas, a unit, monad; N.L. fem. n. Aquimonas, a water monad, referring to the isolation of the type species from a warm spring water sample.
Reference: SAHA (P.), KRISHNAMURTHI (S.), MAYILRAJ (S.), PRASAD (G.S.), BORA (T.C.) and CHAKRABARTI (T.): Aquimonas voraii gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel gammaproteobacterium isolated from a warm spring of Assam, India. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2005, 55, 1491-1495.
Original article in IJSEM Online

Aquimonas voraii Saha et al. 2005, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus).
Type strain (see also StrainInfo.net): strain GPTSA 20 = JCM 12896 = MTCC 6713.
GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain: AY544768.
Etymology: N.L. gen. n. voraii, of Vora, named after V.V. Vora, a distinguished biotechnologist and founder director of the Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India.
Reference: SAHA (P.), KRISHNAMURTHI (S.), MAYILRAJ (S.), PRASAD (G.S.), BORA (T.C.) and CHAKRABARTI (T.): Aquimonas voraii gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel gammaproteobacterium isolated from a warm spring of Assam, India. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2005, 55, 1491-1495.
Original article in IJSEM Online