Nesiotobacter

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

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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").

Nesiotobacter Donachie et al. 2006, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Nesiotobacter exalbescens Donachie et al. 2006.
Etymology: Gr. adj. nesiotes, of an island, insular; N.L. masc. n. bacter, rod; N.L. masc. n. Nesiotobacter, rod from an island, in this case Laysan.
Reference: DONACHIE (S.P.), BOWMAN (J.P.) and ALAM (M.): Nesiotobacter exalbescens gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic alphaproteobacterium from an Hawaiian hypersaline lake. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2006, 56, 563-567.
Original article in IJSEM Online

Nesiotobacter exalbescens Donachie et al. 2006, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus).
Type strain (see also StrainInfo.net): strain LA33B = ATCC BAA-994 = CIP 108449.
GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain: AF513441.
Etymology: L. part. adj. exalbescens (from L. v. exalbesco), becoming white, growing white, referring to the fading colour of maturing colonies.
Reference: DONACHIE (S.P.), BOWMAN (J.P.) and ALAM (M.): Nesiotobacter exalbescens gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic alphaproteobacterium from an Hawaiian hypersaline lake. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2006, 56, 563-567.
Original article in IJSEM Online