Genus Fabibacter
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Number of species, including synonyms, cited in this file: 3
Number of subspecies, including synonyms, cited in this file: 0
Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").
For a detailed description of this taxon see Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria (BMSAB).
Fabibacter Lau et al. 2006, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Fabibacter halotolerans Lau et al. 2006.
Etymology: L. fem. n. faba, bean; N.L. masc. n. bacter, rod; N.L. masc. n. Fabibacter, bean(-like) rod.
Valid publication: LAU (S.C.K.), TSOI (M.M.Y.), LI (X.), PLAKHOTNIKOVA (I.), DOBRETSOV (S.), WU (M.), WONG (P.K.), PAWLIK (J.R.) and QIAN (P.Y.): Description of Fabibacter halotolerans gen. nov., sp. nov. and Roseivirga spongicola sp. nov., and reclassification of [Marinicola] seohaensis as Roseivirga seohaensis comb. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2006, 56, 1059-1065.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Fabibacter halotolerans Lau et al. 2006, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) UST030701-097 = JCM 13334 = NRRL B-41220.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: DQ080995.
Etymology: Gr. n. hals halos, salt; L. part. adj. tolerans, tolerating; N.L. part. adj. halotolerans, salt-tolerating.
Valid publication: LAU (S.C.K.), TSOI (M.M.Y.), LI (X.), PLAKHOTNIKOVA (I.), DOBRETSOV (S.), WU (M.), WONG (P.K.), PAWLIK (J.R.) and QIAN (P.Y.): Description of Fabibacter halotolerans gen. nov., sp. nov. and Roseivirga spongicola sp. nov., and reclassification of [Marinicola] seohaensis as Roseivirga seohaensis comb. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2006, 56, 1059-1065.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Fabibacter misakiensis Wong et al. 2015, sp. nov.
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) SK-8=NBRC 110216=KCTC 32969.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: KM502320.
Etymology: N.L. masc. adj. misakiensis, pertaining to Misaki, the city of which the type strain was isolated.
Source: Environmental - marine.
Valid publication: WONG, S. K., PARK, S., LEE, J. S., LEE, K. C., CHIURA, H. X., KOGURE, K. and HAMASAKI, K. 2015. Fabibacter misakiensis sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from coastal surface water Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 65, 3276-3280.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Fabibacter pacificus Huo et al. 2013, sp. nov.
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) DY53T( = CGMCC 1.12402=JCM 18885.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: KC005305.
Etymology: L. masc. adj. pacificus, pacific referring to the Pacific Ocean, from which the type strain was isolated.
Source: Environmental - marine.
Reference: HUO, Y.-Y., XU, L., WANG, C.-S., YANG, J.-Y., YOU, H., OREN, A. and XU, X.-W. 2013. Fabibacter pacificus sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from seawater. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 63, 3710-3714.
Original article in IJSEM Online