Aquisphaera

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

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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").

Aquisphaera Bondoso et al. 2011, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Aquisphaera giovannonii Bondoso et al. 2011.
Etymology: L. n. aqua, water; L. fem. n. sphaera, a ball, globe, sphere; N.L. fem. n. Aquisphaera, a spherical bacterium living in freshwater.
Reference: BONDOSO (J.), ALBUQUERQUE (L.), NOBRE (M.F.), LOBO-DA-CUNHA (A.), DA COSTA (M.S.) and LAGE (O.M.): Aquisphaera giovannonii gen. nov., sp. nov., a planctomycete isolated from a freshwater aquarium. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2011, 61, 2844-2850.
Original article in IJSEM Online

Aquisphaera giovannonii Bondoso et al. 2011, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus).
Type strain (see also StrainInfo.net): strain OJF2 = CECT 7510 = DSM 22561.
GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain: DQ986200.
Etymology: N.L. gen. masc. n. giovannonii, of Giovannoni, in honour of the American microbiologist Stephen Giovannoni.
Reference: BONDOSO (J.), ALBUQUERQUE (L.), NOBRE (M.F.), LOBO-DA-CUNHA (A.), DA COSTA (M.S.) and LAGE (O.M.): Aquisphaera giovannonii gen. nov., sp. nov., a planctomycete isolated from a freshwater aquarium. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2011, 61, 2844-2850.
Original article in IJSEM Online