Levilinea

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

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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").

Levilinea Yamada et al. 2006, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Levilinea saccharolytica Yamada et al. 2006.
Etymology: L. adj. levis, smooth; L. fem. n. linea, line; N.L. fem. n. Levilinea, smooth, 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

Levilinea saccharolytica Yamada et al. 2006, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus).
Type strain (see also StrainInfo.net): strain KIBI-1 = DSM 16555 = JCM 12578.
GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain: AB109439.
Etymology: Gr. n. saccharon, sugar; N.L. adj. lyticus -a -um (from Gr. adj. lutikos -ê -on), able to loose, able to dissolve; N.L. fem. adj. saccharolytica, saccharolytic, using various sugars.
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