Oceanisphaera

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

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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").

Oceanisphaera Romanenko et al. 2003, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Oceanisphaera litoralis Romanenko et al. 2003.
Etymology: L. masc. n. oceanus, ocean; L. fem. n. sphaera, ball, globe, sphere; N.L. fem. n. Oceanisphaera, oceanic sphere.
Reference: ROMANENKO (L.A.), SCHUMANN (P.), ZHUKOVA (N.V.), ROHDE (M.), MIKHAILOV (V.V.) and STACKEBRANDT (E.): Oceanisphaera litoralis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel halophilic bacterium from marine bottom sediments. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2003, 53, 1885-1888.
Original article in IJSEM Online

---> Oceanisphaera Romanenko et al. 2003 emend. Choi et al. 2011.
Type species: ¤ Oceanisphaera litoralis Romanenko et al. 2003.
Etymology: L. masc. n. oceanus, ocean; L. fem. n. sphaera, ball, globe, sphere; N.L. fem. n. Oceanisphaera, oceanic sphere.
Reference: CHOI (W.C.), KANG (S.J.), JUNG (Y.T.), OH (T.K.) and YOON (J.H.): Oceanisphaera ostreae sp. nov., isolated from seawater of an oyster farm, and emended description of the genus Oceanisphaera Romanenko et al. 2003. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2011, 61, 2880-2884.
Original article in IJSEM Online

Oceanisphaera donghaensis Park et al. 2006, sp. nov.
Type strain (see also StrainInfo.net): strain BL1 = DSM 17589 = KCTC 12522.
GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain: DQ190441.
Etymology: N.L. fem. adj. donghaensis, pertaining to Donghae, from Donghae, the Korean name for the East Sea in Korea from which the strains were isolated.
Reference: PARK (S.J.), KANG (C.H.), NAM (Y.D.), BAE (J.W.), PARK (Y.H.), QUAN (Z.X.), MOON (D.S.), KIM (H.J.), ROH (D.H.) and RHEE (S.K.): Oceanisphaera donghaensis sp. nov., a halophilic bacterium from the East Sea, Korea. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2006, 56, 895-898.
Original article in IJSEM Online

Oceanisphaera litoralis Romanenko et al. 2003, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus).
Type strain (see also StrainInfo.net): strain DSM 15406 = KMM 3654.
GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain: AJ550470.
Etymology: L. fem. adj. litoralis, of or belonging to the seashore.
Reference: ROMANENKO (L.A.), SCHUMANN (P.), ZHUKOVA (N.V.), ROHDE (M.), MIKHAILOV (V.V.) and STACKEBRANDT (E.): Oceanisphaera litoralis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel halophilic bacterium from marine bottom sediments. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2003, 53, 1885-1888.
Original article in IJSEM Online

Oceanisphaera ostreae Choi et al. 2011, sp. nov.
Type strain (see also StrainInfo.net): strain T-w6 = CCUG 60525 = KCTC 23422.
GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain: HQ340607.
Etymology: L. gen. n. ostreae, of/from an oyster.
Reference: CHOI (W.C.), KANG (S.J.), JUNG (Y.T.), OH (T.K.) and YOON (J.H.): Oceanisphaera ostreae sp. nov., isolated from seawater of an oyster farm, and emended description of the genus Oceanisphaera Romanenko et al. 2003. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2011, 61, 2880-2884.
Original article in IJSEM Online