Granulicatella

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

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Number of species cited in this file: 3
Number of subspecies cited in this file: 0

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

Granulicatella Collins and Lawson 2000, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Granulicatella adiacens (Bouvet et al. 1989) Collins and Lawson 2000.
Etymology: L. dim. n. granulum, small grain; L. fem. dim. n. catella, small chain; N.L. fem. dim. n. Granulicatella, small chain of small grains.
Reference: COLLINS (M.D.) and LAWSON (P.A.): The genus Abiotrophia (Kawamura et al.) is not monophyletic: proposal of Granulicatella gen. nov., Granulicatella adiacens comb. nov., Granulicatella elegans comb. nov. and Granulicatella balaenopterae comb. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2000, 50, 365-369.
Original article in IJSEM Online

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Granulicatella adiacens (Bouvet et al. 1989) Collins and Lawson 2000, comb. nov. (Type species of the genus).
Type strain (see also StrainInfo.net): strain GaD = ATCC 49175 = CCUG 27637 A = CCUG 27809 = CIP 103243 = DSM 9848 = LMG 14496 = NCTC 13000.
GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain: D50540.
Basonym: ¤ Streptococcus adjacens Bouvet et al. 1989.
Other synonym: ¤ Abiotrophia adiacens (Bouvet et al. 1989) Kawamura et al. 1995.
Etymology: L. fem. adj. adiacens, adjacent, indicating that this organism can grow as satellite colonies adjacent to other bacterial growth.
Reference: COLLINS (M.D.) and LAWSON (P.A.): The genus Abiotrophia (Kawamura et al.) is not monophyletic: proposal of Granulicatella gen. nov., Granulicatella adiacens comb. nov., Granulicatella elegans comb. nov. and Granulicatella balaenopterae comb. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2000, 50, 365-369.
Original article in IJSEM Online

Note: The spelling of the specific epithet is adiacens in the nomenclatural names Granulicatella adiacens and Abiotophia adiacens, and adjacens in the nomenclatural name Streptococcus adjacens. For more information, see ¤ Abiotrophia adiacens.

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Granulicatella balaenopterae (Lawson et al. 1999) Collins and Lawson 2000, comb. nov.
Type strain (see also StrainInfo.net): strain M1975/96/1 = ATCC 700813 = CCUG 37380 = CIP 105938.
GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain: Y16547.
Basonym: ¤ Abiotrophia balaenopterae Lawson et al. 1999.
Etymology: N.L. gen. n. balaenopterae, pertaining to the minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata, from which the organism was isolated.
Reference: COLLINS (M.D.) and LAWSON (P.A.): The genus Abiotrophia (Kawamura et al.) is not monophyletic: proposal of Granulicatella gen. nov., Granulicatella adiacens comb. nov., Granulicatella elegans comb. nov. and Granulicatella balaenopterae comb. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2000, 50, 365-369.
Original article in IJSEM Online

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Granulicatella elegans (Roggenkamp et al. 1999) Collins and Lawson 2000, comb. nov.
Type strain (see also StrainInfo.net): strain B1333 = ATCC 700633 = CCUG 38949 = CIP 105513 = DSM 11693.
GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain: AF016390.
Basonym: ¤ Abiotrophia elegans Roggenkamp et al. 1999.
Etymology: L. fem. adj. elegans, choice, nice, elegant.
Reference: COLLINS (M.D.) and LAWSON (P.A.): The genus Abiotrophia (Kawamura et al.) is not monophyletic: proposal of Granulicatella gen. nov., Granulicatella adiacens comb. nov., Granulicatella elegans comb. nov. and Granulicatella balaenopterae comb. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2000, 50, 365-369.
Original article in IJSEM Online

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