Caldivirga

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

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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").

Caldivirga Itoh et al. 1999, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Caldivirga maquilingensis Itoh et al. 1999.
Etymology: L. adj. caldus, warm, hot; L. fem. n. virga, rod; N.L. fem. n. Caldivirga, a hot rod.
Reference: ITOH (T.), SUZUKI (K.I.), SANCHEZ (P.C.) and NAKASE (T.): Caldivirga maquilingensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new genus of rod-shaped crenarchaeote isolated from a hot spring in the Philippines. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol, 1999, 49, 1157-1163.
Original article in IJSEM Online

Note: The Latin noun virga ae (a twig) is in the feminine gender. So, according to Rule 65 (2), the generic name Caldivirga is in the feminine gender, not in the masculine gender (sic).

Caldivirga maquilingensis Itoh et al. 1999, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus).
Type strain (see also StrainInfo.net): strain IC-167 = ANMR 0178 = ATCC 700844 = DSM 13496 = JCM 10307 = MCC-UPLB 1200.
Etymology: N.L. fem. adj. maquilingensis, pertaining to Mount Maquiling, a volcano in the Phillippines.
GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain: AB013926.
Reference: ITOH (T.), SUZUKI (K.I.), SANCHEZ (P.C.) and NAKASE (T.): Caldivirga maquilingensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new genus of rod-shaped crenarchaeote isolated from a hot spring in the Philippines. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol, 1999, 49, 1157-1163.
Original article in IJSEM Online