Genus Bounagaea
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Number of species, including synonyms, cited in this file: 1
Number of subspecies, including synonyms, cited in this file: 0
Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").
Bounagaea Meklat et al. 2015, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Bounagaea algeriensis Meklat et al. 2015.
Etymology: N.L. fem. n. bounagaea, of Bounaga, named in honour of the memory and untimely death of our late Professor Djilali Bounaga (1931–1980) of the Centre National de Recherche sur les Zones Arides (CNRZA), and also in honour of our Professor Nicole Bounaga-Riveill (CNRZA and URZA), for their broad contributions in teaching and training of researchers in the field of biology in Algeria.
Valid publication: Validation List no. 166. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 65 (2015), 3763-3767.
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Effective publication: Meklat, A., Bouras, N., Mokrane, S., Zitouni, A., Schumann, P., Spröer, C., Klenk, H.-P. and Sabaou, N. 2015. Bounagaea algeriensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an extremely halophilic actinobacterium isolated from a Saharan soil of Algeria. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 108, 473-482.
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Bounagaea algeriensis Meklat et al. 2015, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) H8=CECT 8470=DSM 45966.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: KF981441.
Whole-genome sequence accession no. for the type strain: -.
Etymology: N.L. fem. adj. algeriensis, pertaining to Algeria, the source of the soil from which the type strain was isolated.
Source: Environmental - soil.
Valid publication: Validation List no. 166. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 65 (2015), 3763-3767.
Validation List Online
Effective publication: Meklat, A., Bouras, N., Mokrane, S., Zitouni, A., Schumann, P., Spröer, C., Klenk, H.-P. and Sabaou, N. 2015. Bounagaea algeriensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an extremely halophilic actinobacterium isolated from a Saharan soil of Algeria. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 108, 473-482.
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Note: The genus epithet is a N.L. masc. gen. n..