Nitrospina

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

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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").

Nitrospina Watson and Waterbury 1971, genus. (Type genus of the family ¤ Nitrospinaceae Garrity et al. 2006).
Type species: ¤ Nitrospina gracilis Watson and Waterbury 1971 (Approved Lists 1980).
Etymology: N.L. n. nitras -atis, nitrate; N.L. pref. nitro-, pertaining to nitrate; L. fem. n. spina, thorn, spine; N.L. fem. n. Nitrospina, nitrate spine.
References: SKERMAN (V.B.D.), McGOWAN (V.) and SNEATH (P.H.A.) (editors): Approved Lists of Bacterial Names. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1980, 30, 225-420 (Approved Lists of Bacterial Names in IJSEM Online - Approved Lists of Bacterial Names Amended edition). [WATSON (S.W.) and WATERBURY (J.B.): Characteristics of two marine nitrite oxidizing bacteria, Nitrospina gracilis nov. gen. nov. sp. and Nitrococcus mobilis nov. gen. nov. sp. Archiv fur Mikrobiologie, 1971, 77, 203-230.]

Nitrospina gracilis Watson and Waterbury 1971, species. (Type species of the genus).
Type strain (see also StrainInfo.net): See the note below.
GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain: not available.
Etymology: L. fem. adj. gracilis, thin, slender.
References: SKERMAN (V.B.D.), McGOWAN (V.) and SNEATH (P.H.A.) (editors): Approved Lists of Bacterial Names. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1980, 30, 225-420 (Approved Lists of Bacterial Names in IJSEM Online - Approved Lists of Bacterial Names Amended edition). [WATSON (S.W.) and WATERBURY (J.B.): Characteristics of two marine nitrite oxidizing bacteria, Nitrospina gracilis nov. gen. nov. sp. and Nitrococcus mobilis nov. gen. nov. sp. Archiv fur Mikrobiologie, 1971, 77, 203-230.]

Note: A strain of Nitrospina gracilis, the strain 3/211 (obtained from Biozentrum Klein Flottbek,University of Hamburg) is available. However, the designation of this strain as the type strain of Nitrospina gracilis is not published in the IJSB/IJSEM (see Rule 18f). The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the strain 3/211 is FR865038.