Gemmatimonas

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

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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").

Gemmatimonas Zhang et al. 2003, gen. nov. (Type genus of the order ¤ Gemmatimonadales Zhang et al. 2003; type genus of the family ¤ Gemmatimonadaceae Zhang et al. 2003).
Type species: ¤ Gemmatimonas aurantiaca Zhang et al. 2003.
Etymology: L. adj. gemmatus, provided with buds; L. fem. n. monas, a unit; N.L. fem. n. Gemmatimonas, a budding unit.
Reference: ZHANG (H.), SEKIGUCHI (Y.), HANADA (S.), HUGENHOLTZ (P.), KIM (H.), KAMAGATA (Y.) and NAKAMURA (K.): Gemmatimonas aurantiaca gen. nov., sp. nov., a Gram-negative, aerobic, polyphosphate-accumulating micro-organism, the first cultured representative of the new bacterial phylum Gemmatimonadetes phyl. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2003, 53, 1155-1163.
Original article in IJSEM Online

Gemmatimonas aurantiaca Zhang et al. 2003, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus).
Type strain (see also StrainInfo.net): strain T-27 = DSM 14586 = JCM 11422 = NBRC 100505.
GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain: AP009153 (complete genome).
Etymology: N.L. fem. adj. aurantiaca, orange-coloured.
Reference: ZHANG (H.), SEKIGUCHI (Y.), HANADA (S.), HUGENHOLTZ (P.), KIM (H.), KAMAGATA (Y.) and NAKAMURA (K.): Gemmatimonas aurantiaca gen. nov., sp. nov., a Gram-negative, aerobic, polyphosphate-accumulating micro-organism, the first cultured representative of the new bacterial phylum Gemmatimonadetes phyl. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2003, 53, 1155-1163.
Original article in IJSEM Online