Leptolinea

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

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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").

Leptolinea Yamada et al. 2006, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Leptolinea tardivitalis Yamada et al. 2006.
Etymology: Gr. adj. leptos, fine; L. fem. n. linea, line; N.L. fem. n. Leptolinea, fine, line-shaped organism.
Reference: YAMADA (T.), SEKIGUCHI (Y.), HANADA (S.), IMACHI (H.), OHASHI (A.), HARADA (H.) and KAMAGATA (Y.): Anaerolinea thermolimosa sp. nov., Levilinea saccharolytica gen. nov., sp. nov. and Leptolinea tardivitalis gen. nov., sp. nov., novel filamentous anaerobes, and description of the new classes Anaerolineae classis nov. and Caldilineae classis nov. in the bacterial phylum Chloroflexi. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2006, 56, 1331-1340.
Original article in IJSEM Online

Leptolinea tardivitalis Yamada et al. 2006, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus).
Type strain (see also StrainInfo.net): strain YMTK-2 = DSM 16556 = JCM 12579.
GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain: AB109438.
Etymology: L. adj. tardus, slow; L. fem. adj. vitalis, vital, alive; N.L. fem. adj. tardivitalis, having a slow lifestyle.
Reference: YAMADA (T.), SEKIGUCHI (Y.), HANADA (S.), IMACHI (H.), OHASHI (A.), HARADA (H.) and KAMAGATA (Y.): Anaerolinea thermolimosa sp. nov., Levilinea saccharolytica gen. nov., sp. nov. and Leptolinea tardivitalis gen. nov., sp. nov., novel filamentous anaerobes, and description of the new classes Anaerolineae classis nov. and Caldilineae classis nov. in the bacterial phylum Chloroflexi. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2006, 56, 1331-1340.
Original article in IJSEM Online