Genus Cephaloticoccus
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Number of species, including synonyms, cited in this file: 2
Number of subspecies, including synonyms, cited in this file: 0
Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").
Cephaloticoccus Lin et al. 2016, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Cephaloticoccus primus Lin et al. 2016.
Etymology: N.L. n. Cephalotes, an ant genus; N.L. masc. n. coccus (from Gr. masc. n. kokkos, grain, seed), coccus; N.L. masc. n. Cephaloticoccus, a coccus from the Cephalotes ant.
Valid publication: LIN, J. Y., RUSSELL, J. A., SANDERS, J. G. and WERTZ, J. T. 2016. Cephaloticoccus gen. nov., a new genus of ‘Verrucomicrobia’ containing two novel species isolated from Cephalotes ant guts Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 66, 3034-3040.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Cephaloticoccus capnophilus Lin et al. 2016, sp. nov.
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) CV41=NCIMB 15005=ATCC TSD-39=DSM 100879.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: KM066003.
Whole-genome sequence accession no. for the type strain: .
Etymology: Gr. n. capnos, smoke (used in biology for carbon dioxide); N.L. adj. philus -a -um (from Gr. adj. philos, -ê -on), friend, loving; N.L. masc. adj. capnophilus, carbon dioxide loving.
Source: Animal.
Valid publication: LIN, J. Y., RUSSELL, J. A., SANDERS, J. G. and WERTZ, J. T. 2016. Cephaloticoccus gen. nov., a new genus of ‘Verrucomicrobia’ containing two novel species isolated from Cephalotes ant guts Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 66, 3034-3040; corrigendum 67, 523..
Original article in IJSEM Online
Note: No type species was designated in the protologue of the original description - it was designated in a corrigendum.
Reference: LIN, J. Y., RUSSELL, J. A., SANDERS, J. G. and WERTZ, J. T. 2017. Corrigendum: Cephaloticoccus gen. nov., a new genus of 'Verrucomicrobia' containing two novel species isolated from Cephalotes ant guts. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 67, 523.
Article in IJSEM Online
Cephaloticoccus primus Lin et al. 2016, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) CAG34=NCIMB 15004=ATCC TSD-38.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: KM066004.
Whole-genome sequence accession no. for the type strain: .
Etymology: L. masc. adj. primus, first, the first to be found.
Source: Animal.
Valid publication: LIN, J. Y., RUSSELL, J. A., SANDERS, J. G. and WERTZ, J. T. 2016. Cephaloticoccus gen. nov., a new genus of ‘Verrucomicrobia’ containing two novel species isolated from Cephalotes ant guts Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 66, 3034-3040.
Original article in IJSEM Online