Genus Lentimicrobium
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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").
Lentimicrobium Sun et al. 2016, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Lentimicrobium saccharophilum Sun et al. 2016.
Etymology: L. adj. lentus, slow; N.L. neut. n. microbium (from Gr. adj. mikros, small and Gr. n. bios, life), a microbe; N.L. neut. n. Lentimicrobium, slow growing microbe.
Valid publication: SUN, L., TOYONAGA, M., OHASHI, A., TOURLOUSSE, D. M., MATSUURA, N., MENG, X. Y., TAMAKI, H., HANADA, S., CRUZ, R., YAMAGUCHI, T. and SEKIGUCHI, Y. 2016. Lentimicrobium saccharophilum gen. nov., sp. nov., a strictly anaerobic bacterium representing a new family in the phylum Bacteroidetes, and proposal of Lentimicrobiaceae fam. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 66, 2635-2642.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Lentimicrobium saccharophilum Sun et al. 2016, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) TBC1=JCM 30898=DSM 100618.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: LC049960.
Whole-genome sequence accession no. for the type strain: -.
Etymology: Gr. n. sakchâr, sugar; N.L. neut. adj. philum (from Gr. neut. adj. philon, friend), loving; N.L. neut. adj. saccharophilum, sugar-loving.
Source: Industrial.
Valid publication: SUN, L., TOYONAGA, M., OHASHI, A., TOURLOUSSE, D. M., MATSUURA, N., MENG, X. Y., TAMAKI, H., HANADA, S., CRUZ, R., YAMAGUCHI, T. and SEKIGUCHI, Y. 2016. Lentimicrobium saccharophilum gen. nov., sp. nov., a strictly anaerobic bacterium representing a new family in the phylum Bacteroidetes, and proposal of Lentimicrobiaceae fam. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 66, 2635-2642.
Original article in IJSEM Online