Marixanthomonas

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

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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").

Marixanthomonas Romanenko et al. 2007, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Marixanthomonas ophiurae Romanenko et al. 2007.
Etymology: L. n. mare, the sea; Gr. adj. xanthos, yellow; Gr. fem. n. monas, a unit, monad; N.L. fem. n. Marixanthomonas, a marine yellow monad.
Reference: ROMANENKO (L.A.), UCHINO (M.), FROLOVA (G.M.) and MIKHAILOV (V.V.): Marixanthomonas ophiurae gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine bacterium of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from a deep-sea brittle star. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2007, 57, 457-462.
Original article in IJSEM Online

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Marixanthomonas ophiurae Romanenko et al. 2007, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus).
Type strain (see also StrainInfo.net): strain JCM 14121 = KMM 3046 = NRIC 0684.
GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain: AB261012.
Etymology: N.L. gen. n. ophiurae, of Ophiura, a genus of invertebrates belonging to the class Ophiuroidea, the source of isolation of the type strain.
Reference: ROMANENKO (L.A.), UCHINO (M.), FROLOVA (G.M.) and MIKHAILOV (V.V.): Marixanthomonas ophiurae gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine bacterium of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from a deep-sea brittle star. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2007, 57, 457-462.
Original article in IJSEM Online

Note: In the etymology provided by Romanenko et al. 2007, the genus Ophiura is erroneously cited as a class ("N.L. gen. n. ophiurae, of Ophiura, a class of invertebrates belonging to the Ophiuroidea, the source of isolation of the type strain").

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