Genus Hyphococcus
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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").
Hyphococcus Sun et al. 2017, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Hyphococcus flavus Sun et al. 2017.
Etymology: Gr. n. hyphê, a web, thread; N.L. masc. n. coccus (from Gr. masc. n. kokkos, grain, seed), coccus; N.L. masc. n. Hyphococcus, thread-producing spherical bacterium.
Valid publication: SUN, C., WU, C., SU, Y., WANG, R. J., FU, G. Y., ZHAO, Z., YU, X. Y., HUANG, M. M., HAN, B. N., LV, Z. B. and WU, M. 2017. Hyphococcus flavus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel alphaproteobacterium isolated from deep seawater. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 67, 4024-4031.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Hyphococcus flavus Sun et al. 2017, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) HSF6=MCCC 1K03223=KCTC 52486.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: KX418769.
Etymology: L. masc. adj. flavus, yellow.
Source: Environmental - marine.
Valid publication: SUN, C., WU, C., SU, Y., WANG, R. J., FU, G. Y., ZHAO, Z., YU, X. Y., HUANG, M. M., HAN, B. N., LV, Z. B. and WU, M. 2017. Hyphococcus flavus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel alphaproteobacterium isolated from deep seawater. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 67, 4024-4031.
Original article in IJSEM Online