Genus Consotaella
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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").
Consotaella Diaz et al. 2017, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Consotaella salsifontis Diaz et al. 2017.
Etymology: N.L. dim. fem. n. Consotaella, pertaining to Salado de Consotá saline spring, the geographical location from which the organism was first isolated.
Valid publication: DIAZ-CARDENAS, C., BERNAL, L. F., CARO-QUINTERO, A., LOPEZ, G., DAVID ALZATE, J., GONZALEZ, L. N., RESTREPO, S., SHAPIRO, N., WOYKE, T., KYRPIDES, N. C. and BAENA, S. 2017. Draft genome and description of Consotaella salsifontis gen. nov. sp. nov., a halophilic, free-living, nitrogen-fixing alphaproteobacterium isolated from an ancient terrestrial saline spring. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 67, 3744-3751.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Consotaella salsifontis Diaz et al. 2017, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) USBA 369=KCTC 22549=CMPUJ U369.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: KC807165.
Whole-genome sequence accession no.: FUXL01000001.
Etymology: L. adj. salsus, salted; L. n. fons, fontis, a spring, fountain; N.L. gen. n. salsifontis, of a salted spring.
Source: Environmental.
Valid publication: DIAZ-CARDENAS, C., BERNAL, L. F., CARO-QUINTERO, A., LOPEZ, G., DAVID ALZATE, J., GONZALEZ, L. N., RESTREPO, S., SHAPIRO, N., WOYKE, T., KYRPIDES, N. C. and BAENA, S. 2017. Draft genome and description of Consotaella salsifontis gen. nov. sp. nov., a halophilic, free-living, nitrogen-fixing alphaproteobacterium isolated from an ancient terrestrial saline spring. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 67, 3744-3751.
Original article in IJSEM Online