Schleiferia

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

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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").

Schleiferia Albuquerque et al. 2011, gen. nov. (Type genus of the family ¤ Schleiferiaceae Albuquerque et al. 2011).
Type species: ¤ Schleiferia thermophila Albuquerque et al. 2011.
Etymology: N.L. fem. n. Schleiferia, named in honour of the German microbiologist Karl-Heinz Schleifer.
Reference: ALBUQUERQUE (L.), RAINEY (F.A.), NOBRE (M.F.) and DA COSTA (M.S.): Schleiferia thermophila gen. nov., sp. nov., a slightly thermophilic bacterium of the phylum ‘Bacteroidetes’ and the proposal of Schleiferiaceae fam. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2011, 61, 2450-2455.
Original article in IJSEM Online

Schleiferia thermophila Albuquerque et al. 2011, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus).
Type strain (see also StrainInfo.net): strain TU-20 = DSM 21410 = LMG 24594.
GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain: HQ172900.
Etymology: Gr. adj. thermos, hot; N.L. fem. adj. phila (from Gr. fem. adj. philê), friend, loving; N.L. fem. adj. thermophila, heat-loving.
Reference: ALBUQUERQUE (L.), RAINEY (F.A.), NOBRE (M.F.) and DA COSTA (M.S.): Schleiferia thermophila gen. nov., sp. nov., a slightly thermophilic bacterium of the phylum ‘Bacteroidetes’ and the proposal of Schleiferiaceae fam. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2011, 61, 2450-2455.
Original article in IJSEM Online